I ordered two 350's a few weeks ago. I was also promised delivery in time
for my new lab opening. I had to twist arms to get a demo station delivered
since SGI could not deliver the systems in time - I am still waiting for the
two systems. I was assured that the production and shipping was being done
by a "big" company who does it for Dell also and that they were confident of
shipping their systems with 4-5 day turn around. HUH
However I do hava the demo station and it does lightening speed graphics.
Basic comparison - it shades and textures twice as fast as my new 450 PII
(dual processor) with FireGLpro 1000 graphics card.
---------------------------------
Dr. Anshuman Razdan
Technical Director PRISM
Email: razdan@asu.edu
Web: surdas.eas.asu.edu/~razdan
MC 5106 Arizona State University
Tempe AZ 85287-5106
Phone: (602) 965 5368
Fax: (602) 965 2910
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rp-ml@ltk.hut.fi
> [mailto:owner-rp-ml@ltk.hut.fi]On Behalf Of
> Fusioneng@AOL.COM
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 5:30 PM
> To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
> Subject: SGI NT workstations
>
>
> A couple months ago someone inquired on the RP-ML about the new SGI-NT
> workstations. If anyone had seen them and if they were any
> good. I replied and
> said we had just ordered 6 320 workstations and I was very
> impressed with
> what I had seen at the product release seminar. I stated in
> my posting that as
> soon as I get the workstations in I would let everyone know
> if they are
> worthwhile. Its been 9 weeks now and we still havn't recieved
> our computers.
> They are telling us we may get them in April sometime (no
> promises). What gets
> me is they are now offering Pentium III systems for less than
> we are paying
> for the Pentium II systems we have on order. With deliveries
> of less that 4
> weeks. My company is not new to SGI we have dozens of SGI
> computers in house,
> most of which cost more than $25K. I DO NOT recommend anyone
> to follow the
> same path I did. I hope I didn't convince anyone one way or another to
> purchase one of these workstations based on my earlier
> posting. If I did I
> apologize.
> Bob Morton
> Fusion Engineering
>
> For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
>
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