The collected works of Rutrem

Hi

Iam new on this forum , and i plan to by an SGI Octane from eBay.
I am an pc/Windows user , but under the surface a great SGI fun;p

I have heard a lot of storys on SGI machines ... and iam really curious to hear some fresh firsthand experince from reall users.
An SGI Octan (first gen) could be compared with what kind (config) p.c. or Mac?

thnx a lot for the responses.
Basiclly iam thinkin to use a SGI Octane for 3D(Blander) and 2D(Gimp),
primarlly for open source software. Its not my intention to play games on this machine(ex.Quake2 , hi,hi,hi)

I heard a lot of good stuff around the Xbow arch.,
and stability of the IRIX OS.

i found this review for AthlonMP cpu, where also tested a Octane 2 with 2 400Mhz RISC cpu

http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=30000190

...Octane is working very well if u consider that is faced against an Athlon system with 2 CPU on 1200Mhz!