Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> In comparison the Apple G4 and G3 (we have one of each and both cost less
> than 2 lakhs each with DVD, ATI Rage Pro 16MB, SCSI HDD etc) outperform
> the SGI by a wide margin (it leaves the SGI in the dust, so to say) (I'm
> wondering whether a mac with linux will be better for graphics work).
> Everyone here has finished off with SGI systems (final touches kindly by
> Tata Elxsi who take especially long to respond, being the only authorised
> SGI center in this place, ie. SGI USA will not deal with you directly).
Are you talking about Apple IMAC's or the CUBES ? I have
a G3 IMAC which I donot think will outperform SGI. I have
it for my video editing purposes and I find it decent in
performance.
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Swapan Sarkar
[LINUX evangelist]
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