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.

Comments

Completely useless

[NineNine]

I want to congratulate the company on making a motherboard that is virtually useless to anybody who isn't bleeding edge. I don't even have a single USB device, and I still use ISA cards extensively because they'er so damn cheap. So congratulations, Abit! You've made a product that only the geekiest and wealthiest of geeks can actually use!

Re:Huh?

[shyster]

"Hardcoreware.net has the first full review of this board, which has support for 10 USB devices" "I wish it had even more built-in USB ports, but six is a good start." Am I missing something?

Yeah, the legendary Slashdot editor's inattentiveness. This is nothing new, so move along.

Wait wait wait

[sielwolf]

IDE slots? 12? Please tell me this is a typo... or that there are 24 PCI slots. WTF would you use 12 IDE slots for that you wouldn't want to do with something a little more *ahem* modern?

Re:I think they're smoking ABIT of crack over ther

[Kenshin]

"What about us Linux folks who don't use much USB because the drivers haven't been written yet?"

I know this is going to get trolled down, but you have two options:

1) Buy a different motherboard. They sell more than one, you know.

2) Use an OS that actually has *features*, instead of constantly bitching that your OS doesn't support hardware any newer than two years old.