Slashdot Mirror
More Insight On Longhorn's Avalon And Aero Design
Lispy writes "While monitoring the Xorg mailinglist I came across this set of WinHEC PPT-presentations (work fine in OOorg) that cover some interesting details on the underlying architecture of Aero, Aero Glass and future font rendering in Microsoft's upcoming Longhorn OS. What does the Slashdot crowd think about the overall design and its downsides, such as power consumption on notebooks?" (KPresenter works fine, too, btw.)
"Because it will be bloated DRM'ed closed proprietary standard breaking winblowz crap"
That's if microsoft came out with a can opener. However, it wouldn't open all cans, they'd have to be registered. RFID would ensure this. Not surprisingly, these are tin cans.
My 2 year old Powerbook is doing most of this as I type. It irks me that these people don't give Apple credit for leading the way.
That said, I think raising the bar for Wintel notebook graphics hardware is a Good Thing. Dx9 Graphics minimum is gonna make my job as a games programmer so much sweeter.
Isn't power consumption going to be more of a hardware issue - I mean, Dx9 chips nowadays have how many transistors?
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