If only SGI had built a laptop, too.

Some SGI engineeers did build only a prototype of an O2 laptop — with an ergonomic keyboard.

However, there was a company called CRI that remade SGI Indy into thick-boy "laptops" for the military.

Are there any pictures of it?! I NEED those.

Edit: found https://web.archive.org/web/20080330045629/http://www.jumbop...

and

https://www.siliconbunny.com/silicon-graphics-laptops/

I often like to daydream of a world where some SGI engineer used a titanium casing to build the "SGI tiBook" instead of Apple, and we ended up in a world where SGI, not Apple, is the trillion-dollar computing company of the 21st Century.

Of course, its just a fantasy, but somehow I feel like an SGI tiBook would've won over a lot of nerds, a lot faster, than Apples' variant did ..

I think it could be a lot worse than us running NeXT machines. The later top-of-the-line ones are even black. Imagine if it were HP-UX.

Maybe the next MacPro will be a black cube.

Some have built portable setups with an Indy and an Indy presenter. I remember 25 years ago someone showing off with such a custom portable configuration, with an Indy motherboard and PSU, a keyboard and track ball and an Indy presenter crammed inside a small metal suitcase, very chic (but required external power).

Fake versions were made for the movies "Twister" and "Congo" but AFAIK these were completely fake (the actual Indy driving the screen was off camera somewhere).

Tadpole and a few other vendors made "laptop" Unix workstations with SPARCs, PowerPC, plus an Alpha one running OpenVMS.

And there were also a few "laptops" with PA-RISC running HP-UX.