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From: steve@olympus.wrcr.unr.edu (Stephen Wheatcraft)
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Subject: Re: 4D/310GTX
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Date: 16 Nov 90 03:09:08 GMT
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In article <1990Nov16.005648.18732@Neon.Stanford.EDU> loan@Neon.Stanford.EDU (James P. Loan) writes:
>This week's Digital Review contains an article comparing the new
>Sun Sparcstations to SGI machines. There is mention of a diskless
>4D/310GTX machine that can display 100,000 polygons/second and
>which retails for $49,900.
>
>Is this information accurate? Such a beast is not listed in my periodic
>table of the IRISes. For $15,000 more than a 4D/35, this seems like an
>awesome deal.
>
>Any information on this 310 machine would be greatly appreciated.
>E.g. how many bit-planes, cost for adding a system disk + 32Meg RAM, ...
>
>thanks in advance,
>pete loan
>loan@neon.stanford.edu

Yes, this is accurate. I was just talking to my SGI sales rep a few
days ago; they dropped the whole 4D/2XX series - no longer sell them.
Now they go from the 4D/85 and the next machine up is the 4D/310.
These are the NEW prices, w/o system disk:
     4D/310S:     $24,900 (no graphics)     (was $34,900)
     4D/310GTXB:  $49,900 (100K polygons/s) (was $74,900)
     4D/310VGX:   $79,900 (1 M  polygons/s) (was $94,900)

     Highest end machine:
     4D/380VGX:  $204,900 (1 M polygons/s, 8x33MHZ cpus) (was $$264,400)

As you can see, MAJOR price drops. Isn't competition great?
(look out IBM).

I am already starting to look for a way to buy a 4D/310VGX;
$80K for 1 M polygons/s looks ~real~ good.

Note: I don't work for SGI; I'm just a satisfied (4D/25TG) customer,
but let me qualify that by saying I am still a NEW customer.

Hope this info helps.

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