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About a decade ago, PC workstations began giving SGI machines a run for their money in what had been, until that time, a single-horse hardware race within the digital content creation market. It didn't take long for these attractively priced alternatives to overtake the expensive O2s and Octanes installed in film and VFX studios, game development facilities, CAD shops, and other locales producing high-end DCC imagery. Presently, professional workstations from Boxx Technologies, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Xi Computer, and others have all but retired the SGI boxes. Not resting on their laurels, professional workstation vendors--working alongside graphics card companies and ...