The SGI O2 was one of the best looking workstations ever designed. I still have mine, gutted with a x86 Linux box inside but still.
Even simple desktops like the Indigo2 had style, and then you had oddball-looking beasts like the Tezro that really pushed the boundaries of what you can do with a computer case.
I miss SGI. The real SGI, that is.
Most modern computers are too cheap to be able to build them with high quality components, and the margins razor thin.
Adjusted for inflation even high-end modern desktop PCs are 10x cheaper than low end Suns and SGIs of the 90s ($10k in '96 $s is >$15k in modern $s).
In my opinion the Google Pixel is the only contemporary machine that has design edge that is envy worthy. I don't have the 'ludicrous speed' edition (yet), I am slumming it with the 2013 version but still utterly delighted with my '4Gb ram' machine.
The original SGI boxes didn't run any software that mere mortals used - no Photoshop, MS Word or anything else consumer grade. The Google Pixel is a bit like that too, allegedly you cannot run anything but a web browser on one. Mine runs a linux dev stack very nicely so, for me, I am still using 'winterm' style terminal windows with 'vi' much like back in the day with SGI boxes.
With things that are cool they are either cool to those that understand these things or they are cool to a wider audience, e.g. non-technical folk. My Pixel does impress mere mortals with the screen, the sound, the keyboard, the trackpad and the 'chrome' lights on the lid. Nothing else presents such a rich audio-visual experience in the laptop form factor. In mini-tutorials and working meetings I find the Google Pixel helps with the task in hand whilst projecting cool, albeit at a fraction of the awesomeness of an SGI box back in the 90's.
I think OpenBSD was released on the same date and they kept the man pages up to date, too.
The sad state with documentation with any GNU/Linux distro beside GuixSD cos GNU Info, is alarming.
But, of course, the SGIs had 90's written all over.
Another feature I liked was two motherboards. I didn't get to buy one but I figured you could theoretically get extra reliability out of it.
The 90's were full of stylish cases. Maybe it's just nostalgia but there were so many cool looking computers back then.
SGI did make them another level of cool. Purple computers! Even something like an Indy that was just going to sit in a web farm looked cool.