Re: Hardware Recommendations

>Keep dreaming and don't actually buy one.
>They have a proprietory video system that is
>on-board. As soon as it is no good or not
>supported anymore you are stuck with an
>expensive, nice looking boat anchor.


    Have you read the specs for that system?
    Its going to run out of processing upgrade
    capacity long before you use up the video
    capabilities. (Take a look at any of the
    old 33mHz Indigo's out there, they're
    ridiculously slow compared to today's
    machines, but their video system still
    rocks). Besides, how many people do you
    know that buy, say a TrueVision 2000
    card - then get pissed off because its
    'no good' anymore?

    The question is 'what do you want the
    system for' not whether its going to
    become obsolete. Now if you just want
    to run Photoshop, a couple games, and
    such then don't get it. If you're going to
    do 3D work with a real application (Maya
    or SoftImage for example), or perhaps
    non-linear video work then I can't think
    of many better systems in the price range.

    And, how, exactly would it become
    'unsupported?' Perhaps MS would come
    out with a new flavour of NT and SGI
    would go out of business, and you simply
    have to go out and upgrade all your
    software which now runs only on the new
    NT. Or perhaps HDTV was replaced by
    something.

cheers all
 ---
Travis Wall, Graphic Designer
Defiance Visual Industries

"there can be no God's eye view of the world"
 --- (author unknown)

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