7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
8:18 a.m.
Mike Shields wrote:
If I were to imagine starting over in SGI's,
I'd probably get an Indigo2 or
an Octane2. An Indigo2 is cheap, but heavy if you're going to ship. They're
basically indestructible. An Octane 2, well equipped, is the best performing
workstation short of the Fuel ($$$), but still very heavy to ship. Octanes
have a higher incidence (at least anecdotally - have no statistics) of
mainboard/frontplane issues, compared to analogous parts in the Indigo2.
The Fuel isn't *that* expensive. A lot of places are dumping their IRIX
hardware nowadays, since it's no longer supported.
Peace... Sridhar