Comment Give SGI a chance to see the light. (Score 1) 62
Perhaps *you* can get your work done on leetle PCs running MesaGL and Linux, but I need to get real work done, and this is one SGI user who won't be buying standard PCs to run his applications on.
If MesaGL, Linux, and a standard PC were up to the task, why would Lucasfilm, PIXAR, Rhythm & Hues, PDI, Digital Domain, Disney, ILM &c, &c, &c, use SGIs in the first place?
The question's rhetorical, but I'll answer it anyway: because no PC provides adequate performance, and so long as SGI exists, ever will.
A $12,000 Octane WILL be incalcuably superior to a $1299 Dell or Compaq. And quite honestly, if you'd rather not prefer an Octane for the work you're doing, you really *don't* know what you're doing.
(Good enough is one thing, but who in their right mind would actually rather have a PC instead of an Octane?)
If MesaGL, Linux, and a standard PC were up to the task, why would Lucasfilm, PIXAR, Rhythm & Hues, PDI, Digital Domain, Disney, ILM &c, &c, &c, use SGIs in the first place?
The question's rhetorical, but I'll answer it anyway: because no PC provides adequate performance, and so long as SGI exists, ever will.
A $12,000 Octane WILL be incalcuably superior to a $1299 Dell or Compaq. And quite honestly, if you'd rather not prefer an Octane for the work you're doing, you really *don't* know what you're doing.
(Good enough is one thing, but who in their right mind would actually rather have a PC instead of an Octane?)
