Way too expensive (Score 1)

That misses the point, though. The whole reason
for the SGIs is 3D performance, and at that they
rock. The 3D graphics performance is significantly
better than the HP Kayak boards. The only thing
that really beats it is the Intergraph Wildcats,
and they cost more. Since main memory can be
used as texture map memory with little or no
performance hit, you can do riduculous things
like use a gigabyte of memory for texture maps.
Try and do that with an 8 MB graphics card. So SGI is selling very high
performance 3D at a decent price.

If you don't want to do 3D, these are not machines
for you. If you need very high graphics performance and are willing to pay a manageable
premium for it, these are good machines.