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"Price: Ask A Sales Rep" In a past life, I was a full-time engineer at SGI. Have they learned nothing?
by davepeck 17y ago
"Price: Ask A Sales Rep"
In a past life, I was a full-time engineer at SGI. Have they learned nothing?
- ams6110 17y agoOctane III is immediately available with Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series or Intel® Atom™ configurations. The base configuration price starts at $7,995.
- nearestneighbor 17y agoAnd the base configuration must be this one: "One dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series-based workstation with advanced NVIDIA graphics and/or GP-GPU card support" So I basically get a regular workstation for $8k ?!
- vdm 17y agoIn this day and age, I expect and demand to be allowed to create a shopping cart with the config of my choice to see how much it would cost, and then abandon it at the last moment.
- davepeck 17y agoExactly. As it turns out, SGI played the "price for base config" game back in the 90s, too. It _was_ a game: nobody wanted the base configuration, and two customers purchasing non-base configs were hardly guaranteed an identical price.