nice (Score 2)

I actually had the privilages of playing with one of the 230s while SGI was giving the spiel to my lab. Heres what I noticed: 1. The graphics in these things is incredible, I'm not talking TNT2, consumer quality BS, but really good stuff. It quite honestly, almost measured up to the onyx/ reality engine 2 we have in our lab. It lacks a little in the texture ram area. 2. The CPU is x86, it cannot possibly compare with higher end MIPS cpus, end of story. If you want to render something, point yourself towards an iris 3. Good deal, seriously, these things are 50 times better than any non-sgi PC on the market. Good deal.