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.
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).
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.