My first 'real computer' was a MIPS Magnum pizzabox RC3230, which I later upgraded to an SGI Indy, and I've been an SGI fanboy every since, having kept every SGI machine I've ever hacked on, from the Indy to an Octane2 and O2 .. so I love to ask this question:

What would life be like right now if SGI had made a laptop?

Remember how revolutionary Apples' tiBook felt at the time? A decent laptop running Unix .. how extraordinary!

Well, it could've been SGI. I wonder at that alternative future on the regular ..

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ddingus 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe it looks a lot like Apple M1.

The O2 tech would have been the best candidate for a laptop.

It would have been a media pro machine, MIDI, video capture in and video out, in addition to the monitor. Network,serial, scsi all on a dock for running big disks...

16:9 or 10 display a la SGI 1600

192khz sound in and out.

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aa-jv 7 days ago | parent [-]

We need to get some cyberdeck hackers on this, stat!

	▲	ddingus 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sure would be a compelling machine.

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hulitu 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> What would life be like right now if SGI had made a laptop?

SGI surely knew how to design a case. All new Apple devices look dull.

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fidotron 8 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I like to think any SGI laptop would have been slightly better looking than those mockups they did for Twister!