I guess I sort of get it, but I always kind of wondered why Silicon Graphics never made a "prosumer" computer. With the (kind of) exception of the Nintendo 64, it seems like most of the Silicon Graphics machines were tens of thousands of dollars in the 90's.
I am curious what the world would be like now if Silicon Graphics had made a model that was less than $2,000, but still ran Irix and had some amount of the 3D processing stuff with it. For that matter, I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Nintendo had released kits for the N64 that let you use it more as a computer.
I'm just thinking that it's all about timing; if they had released something in 1997 for "prosumers", before OS X came out, would Apple have its same market position now? Would we all be using SGiPhones? Would every tech startup get all their engineers little SGI laptops?
I am curious what the world would be like now if Silicon Graphics had made a model that was less than $2,000, but still ran Irix and had some amount of the 3D processing stuff with it. For that matter, I sometimes wonder what it would be like if Nintendo had released kits for the N64 that let you use it more as a computer.
I'm just thinking that it's all about timing; if they had released something in 1997 for "prosumers", before OS X came out, would Apple have its same market position now? Would we all be using SGiPhones? Would every tech startup get all their engineers little SGI laptops?