Re:Who says,,, (Score 1)

Most people's applications don't show advantages on high end SGI hardware.

But you would agree that a number of features available on SGIs would be useful, no? (I listed some on my wish list elsewhere in this discussion... like higher color depth in the pixel/texel pipeline, etc...)

I've always liked SGIs for the featureset more than the performance. Even an SGI maximum impact (which barely accelerated texturing) was more useful than a Voodoo2 (which was the PC3D I had at the time). Similarly, an O2 has features that would be great on a GeForce based card like the media buffer. However, my TNT2 based PC can outperform my O2 on a number of applications that I use everyday.

Most PC3D is designed toward the boxcopy and the software side of the IHVs solution is lost in marketing somewhere.