I have to disagree. My wife currently carries a three pound hunk of paper, steel and canvas from Franklin-Quest that serves the same purpose as an eight ounce Palm Pilot but requires more work on the user's part (not to mention being a hazard to my kneecaps when we are walking side-by-side). While she may not become much more productive by switching to a Palm Pilot, she would surely look more professional for the lack of luggage.
The logo is completely forgettable and conjures up images of either a men's version of Victoria's Secret (Victor's Secret?) or the online outlet for Beverly Hills 90210. The entire image is too slick and perky for a company calling itself a rebel, innovative or otherwise. If they are trying to rebrand themselves, they are doing a piss-poor job of it.
The worst part of it is that this inept excuse for a technology company is going to take a pretty piece of hardware down with it.
I purchased one of these boards in order to upgrade my main box to a K6200 about a year ago and I would advise anyone else to avoid these kind of boards if at all possible. While I was able to get everything working, it was a lot more trouble than it would have been if I had assembled the parts separately. The biggest problems were I/O and IRQ conflicts that gave Win95 fits and resisted all attempts at ironing them out. Linux was pretty well able to simply ignore some of the conflicting hardware (I don't use sound or a mouse under Linux, but both are almost necesities under Win95) Linux, however, had some problems with the chipsets used for video and EIDE, which was an even bigger problem because I couln't get any information about what chipsets the manufacturer had used (no part number visible on the motherboard chips, no contact information for the manufacturer, no clues at the dealer).
The only reason I used the integrated board was because I needed enough free ISA slots to accomodate some legacy hardware I use, and almost no boards these days support more than three ISA slots (and many only support three PCI slots as well: grrr!)
On my next machine, however, I'm going to spend the money to get a reasonable number of expansion slots, or else get an integrated motherboard with proper documentation and contact information. (more likely, I'm not going to suffer through another Intel based Linux box)
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Also, don't confuse insanity with stupidity.
I have to disagree. My wife currently carries a three pound hunk of paper, steel and canvas from Franklin-Quest that serves the same purpose as an eight ounce Palm Pilot but requires more work on the user's part (not to mention being a hazard to my kneecaps when we are walking side-by-side). While she may not become much more productive by switching to a Palm Pilot, she would surely look more professional for the lack of luggage.
The logo is completely forgettable and conjures up images of either a men's version of Victoria's Secret (Victor's Secret?) or the online outlet for Beverly Hills 90210. The entire image is too slick and perky for a company calling itself a rebel, innovative or otherwise. If they are trying to rebrand themselves, they are doing a piss-poor job of it.
The worst part of it is that this inept excuse for a technology company is going to take a pretty piece of hardware down with it.
- Jeff Dutky
I purchased one of these boards in order to upgrade my main box to a K6200 about a year ago and I would advise anyone else to avoid these kind of boards if at all possible. While I was able to get everything working, it was a lot more trouble than it would have been if I had assembled the parts separately. The biggest problems were I/O and IRQ conflicts that gave Win95 fits and resisted all attempts at ironing them out. Linux was pretty well able to simply ignore some of the conflicting hardware (I don't use sound or a mouse under Linux, but both are almost necesities under Win95) Linux, however, had some problems with the chipsets used for video and EIDE, which was an even bigger problem because I couln't get any information about what chipsets the manufacturer had used (no part number visible on the motherboard chips, no contact information for the manufacturer, no clues at the dealer).
The only reason I used the integrated board was because I needed enough free ISA slots to accomodate some legacy hardware I use, and almost no boards these days support more than three ISA slots (and many only support three PCI slots as well: grrr!)
On my next machine, however, I'm going to spend the money to get a reasonable number of expansion slots, or else get an integrated motherboard with proper documentation and contact information. (more likely, I'm not going to suffer through another Intel based Linux box)