The cost is more like $8500USD
large studios that alreay have a well-established IRIX pipeline will prob. continue to buy these puppies.
With 50% more compute, and 35% more 3D power -these little things are probably just fine for line production doing animation, modeling, rigging, etc
For most of us, though, we already know that our dual Pentium PC will smoke an SGI's ass!
-it's a matter of infrastructure, not necesarrilly raw horsepower or cost -
kiwi
