CompuServe Messages

SGI? Get out your wallet! We looked into the SGI machines a while back, but for the money, they just aren't worth it. Use Brad math here: 1 SGI Indy with what I needed to do the same quality work I get from 3DS would cost me over $10,000.00. So let's use $10,000.00 as our number here. For the money, I would get a machine that works about twice as fast as my Pentium 90, which costs me around $4000.00 once I bought all the RAM. So I pay about twice as much for a machine that is twice as fast…makes sense, right? WRONG! After looking into the initial purchase, I started trying out SGI machines and realized that none of my WIndows programs ran well on it (using their little Windows-for-SGI programs)…so my investment started to increase. I couldn't use my Corel Draw! or my Photoshop or any of my expensive design packages on the SGI. Anyway, by the time I had priced everything I needed to run on SGI, I could have bought my existing machine ($4000.00) and four more smaller machines ($2000 each) to farm renderings out to. For the same money as SGI wanted, I could do the same job faster with more PCs and 3D Studio… Wait for the Alphas; unless you have the million or so dollars you need for SGI Onyx machines, don't bother…