[tseter]

Hi guys, you are right and I was a bit too definitive in my statement about productivity. What I meant was more "if you operate a business and/or your income depends on the hardware and/or software that you are using, it is generally not a good idea to invest in SGI machines in 2020". SGI will simply not give you an competitive advantage in 2020 and IRIX is a data safety risk when connected to a public network. This does of course not mean that there are no exceptions. George RR Martin is believed to write his novels on a DOS PC and is by all means a professional who depends on word processing. I also see the charm of the machines and a certain "calmness" radiated by the old soft- and hardware. That the Indigo2 is a design icon that should be in the MoMa instead of the G4 Cube goes also without saying (for me;-). Anyway, for me my initial point is still valid as I personally do not see the point in investing several thousand dollars in e.g. a Tezro that might be 10x faster than the Indigo2 but is still blown out of the water by my IPad as I can also enjoy the "SGI magic" with a Indigo2 for a few hundred dollars.