Comment by lakeviewterrace
10 hours ago
Yes but they were heavy.
They were built like a brick shithouse and felt expensive. You always knew they belonged to someone else.
In other words you couldn't mistake them for an $800 Mac Mini.
Now try imagining a SGI workstation with 512GB of SOLDERED DOWN RAM. You can't because no one would have bought them.
To be fair, these are significantly larger than a Mac Mini. More like one of the old Macintosh Quadras or Performas.
But your main point still stands.
Quadras and Performas were in full mini-tower or desktop configurations.
This thing looks like the ashtray you'd find next to it.
Anyway I'd get the same feeling every time I opened a Sun server. The metal work alone felt like fine industrial craftsmanship.