How will this influence pricing of conventional LCD screens by different manufacturers? And will IBM licence this technology to other companies so we will see for example Toshiba notebooks with ultra-high res screens? How about viewing angle of these displays? Is it the same as in ordinary TFT?
ATI's 123-bit accelerators seem promisong. ATI announced full open-source support fot its hardware, including video capture features! In comparison, I've got an ASUS v3400 TNT/TV card that has a Riva TNT and a video capture chip on-board, but I've lost hope for proper 3D OpenGL software to be released by ASUS (they basically ignore Linux) not to mention video capture drivers... The next card I'm going to buy will probably be an ATI or Matrox. For now, forget nVidia if you use Linux.
Transparencies are a bit unsupported in X, and that's a pity because they are the biggest eye-candy. Currently E-term's transparency (see http://eterm.i-docs.org/faq/etermfaq.html#Q18 for info on why transparency isn't possible, http://www.eterm.org/ for E-term homepage )is a fake because there are no mechanisms in XFree to do this type of stuff. Eterm's "transparent" window shows only the desktop (root window's) background, no other windows can be seen if put behind it. That leaves you with a feeling that you were tricked. There definitely need to be implemented some extensions enabling the rendering of transparencies in X.
Intel might have accomplished this 1Ghz by slightly overclocking existing processor cores and introducing new L2 cache in order to issue 1 Ghz CPUs before AMD. Maybe that's why it's a limited temporary supply...
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How will this influence pricing of conventional LCD screens by different manufacturers? And will IBM licence this technology to other companies so we will see for example Toshiba notebooks with ultra-high res screens? How about viewing angle of these displays? Is it the same as in ordinary TFT?
OK. That's more than one thing I'd like to know.
ATI's 123-bit accelerators seem promisong. ATI announced full open-source support fot its hardware, including video capture features! In comparison, I've got an ASUS v3400 TNT/TV card that has a Riva TNT and a video capture chip on-board, but I've lost hope for proper 3D OpenGL software to be released by ASUS (they basically ignore Linux) not to mention video capture drivers... The next card I'm going to buy will probably be an ATI or Matrox. For now, forget nVidia if you use Linux.
Transparencies are a bit unsupported in X, and that's a pity because they are the biggest eye-candy.
Currently E-term's transparency (see http://eterm.i-docs.org/faq/etermfaq.html#Q18 for info on why transparency isn't possible, http://www.eterm.org/ for E-term homepage )is a fake because there are no mechanisms in XFree to do this type of stuff. Eterm's "transparent" window shows only the desktop (root window's) background, no other windows can be seen if put behind it.
That leaves you with a feeling that you were tricked.
There definitely need to be implemented some extensions enabling the rendering of transparencies in X.
Intel might have accomplished this 1Ghz by slightly overclocking existing processor cores and introducing new L2 cache in order to issue 1 Ghz CPUs before AMD. Maybe that's why it's a limited temporary supply...