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Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports
An enthusiastic reader submits: "Possibly the most innovative motherboard to be released in years, Abit's MAX series intends to dive headfirst into the next generation of computing, leaving legacy ports behind in their dust.
Hardcoreware.net has the first full review of this board, which has support for 10 USB devices and 12 (YES, 12) IDE devices." I wish it had even more built-in USB ports, but six is a good start.
I've got plenty of working ISA cards. TRUE geeks don't buy new hardware just because it's new. TRUE geeks keep working shit working. People who buy the latest and greatest the second it comes out are called wannabe's.
It only has 2 firewire ports, which actually many motherboardss have these days.
Not only is it the standard for digital video and still cameras nowadays, IEEE 1394 aka Firewire/iLink is rapidly eclipsing SCSI as the standard for high-speed external storage devices like hard drives and burners.
Also, USB 2.0 is still not supported in Windows, but Firewire is.
USB is nice, but more Firewire ports -- that would be appealing to me!
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Most of the "Cutting edge" Linux crowd are busy crowing about how they still have their 486 running fine, and how a Athlon XP is far more power than any reasonable man should ever need, so get yerself a 386 damnit. I hardly think Abit is targetting the Linux crowd.
As a "cutting edge" Windows user I have 6 USB devices connected to my PC right now (yup, it's Windows XP, though my cool factor is accomplished by saying that my webserver/firewall/NAT router is a FreeBSD box) and I have never had anything but good experiences with them.