[geeks] Disney going to HP Linux for animation

[alex j avriette]

> I personally think the market would support a sub-$5k machine from SGI.
> That price-point would place it in the same grouping as serious
> workstations from Dell, HP, Compaq, etc.  Put a serious CPU in it, put
> some good graphics in it using commodity hardware (think nVidia).  This
> workstation might not need a crossbar, but it might as well have it to
> make it homogenous among all the other workstations.  This machine
> should use a lot of commodity hardware, actually.  This could keep the
> price down to acceptable levels.

Isn't this what the O2 workstations were supposed to be? How much did 
those cost new anyways?

And the problem with this approach is that it would be a serious 
credibility blow for the company if it sucked.

alex