[rescue] 1st SGI purchase

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:46:43PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On March 28, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > 2) play with 3D stuff/animation/artsy stuff.
> > 
> > You probably want an Octane for that.  They're also insanely cheap.
> 
>   An I^2 Impact system will do great for this stuff too, for all but
> the most demanding [read: "Joshua Boyd" ;)] 3D applications.

I^2s are nice.  The thing that makes me want a newer machine isn't high 
performance 3D.  It is the massive amounts of data needed for uncompressed
video.  If I just wanted 3D, an I2 would make me so happy.

Heck, if GIO scsi cards weren't so hard to come by (not to mention the 
personal video option, or whatever they called it), even an I2 would be 
great.  It just that in this day and age, life is too short for compressed 
video.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd