I rather think that dual AGP will remain something for techies, geeks and professionals.
FWIW, The Sept 2000 Maximum PC article on new mobo busses suggests that "PCI Epxress [the successor to the PCI we all love (or hate) and know] can handle graphics, and this might spell the end of AGP."
I wouldn't doubt that the days of AGP are soon coming to a close. But I'm no engineer, member of the PCI-SIG group nor owner of a crystal ball.
While I do agree that Hollywood has been working on quite a few attempts to "sell us something that we've already got" sometimes the director doesn't have final say in the choice of final release cut. He may have one vision for the film but the studios decided that the public will handle another version better.
So why would I need such large memory on a graphics card ?
The answer is that you don't. Why in the world do I need a 4 way SMP Xeon server in my home? Ah! I don't need it so I haven't purchased one. But that doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who need them.
Yeah, but if the card is to be used for high-end gaming and the latest whiz-bang FPS game requires more than your 64MB card can offer it's become obsolete to you.
There is nothing stopping anyone from downloading a image from Cisco's site if they so choose.
Ummm, I believe that you have to be registered with Cisco and have a valid SmartNet support package with them to be able to download. I'm registered as a Cisco partner and can view the images to download but can't actually download them since there's no support contract connected with my user account. No free image downloads that I know of.
The other way to learn the PIX OS for close to the same price is to pick up a PIX 501. These little boxes run for $400-$600 depending on where you find them and they run the full PIX OS. You're limited to 2 interfaces (no playing with a DMZ) but there really is a lot of stuff you can learn and do with these things.
The new Netscape, Mozilla 1.0.1 and 1.1 are quite stable and also much more refined than the 0.9.4 Mozilla that Netscape 6.2 is based on. I'd highly recommend upgrading to the new version. If you don't like all the "stuff" Netscape includes, grab a stable release of Mozilla.
Netscape 7.0 isn't any more stable than the Mozilla 1.0.1 it's based on. Release candidates, betas and nightly builds of Mozilla are the (potentially) unstable builds.
I can't see any point to this article other than to stir up conflict. Usually, I would expect a news outlet to post stories with information in them but this doesn't offer anything more than an opinion. What's to discuss about an opinion? I'd rather see some links to or quotes from studies and some of the evidence the author refers to.
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I rather think that dual AGP will remain something for techies, geeks and professionals.
FWIW, The Sept 2000 Maximum PC article on new mobo busses suggests that "PCI Epxress [the successor to the PCI we all love (or hate) and know] can handle graphics, and this might spell the end of AGP."
I wouldn't doubt that the days of AGP are soon coming to a close. But I'm no engineer, member of the PCI-SIG group nor owner of a crystal ball.
While I do agree that Hollywood has been working on quite a few attempts to "sell us something that we've already got" sometimes the director doesn't have final say in the choice of final release cut. He may have one vision for the film but the studios decided that the public will handle another version better.
So why would I need such large memory on a graphics card ?
The answer is that you don't. Why in the world do I need a 4 way SMP Xeon server in my home? Ah! I don't need it so I haven't purchased one. But that doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who need them.
Yeah, but if the card is to be used for high-end gaming and the latest whiz-bang FPS game requires more than your 64MB card can offer it's become obsolete to you.
There is nothing stopping anyone from downloading a image from Cisco's site if they so choose.
Ummm, I believe that you have to be registered with Cisco and have a valid SmartNet support package with them to be able to download. I'm registered as a Cisco partner and can view the images to download but can't actually download them since there's no support contract connected with my user account. No free image downloads that I know of.
The other way to learn the PIX OS for close to the same price is to pick up a PIX 501. These little boxes run for $400-$600 depending on where you find them and they run the full PIX OS. You're limited to 2 interfaces (no playing with a DMZ) but there really is a lot of stuff you can learn and do with these things.
The new Netscape, Mozilla 1.0.1 and 1.1 are quite stable and also much more refined than the 0.9.4 Mozilla that Netscape 6.2 is based on. I'd highly recommend upgrading to the new version. If you don't like all the "stuff" Netscape includes, grab a stable release of Mozilla.
Netscape 7.0 isn't any more stable than the Mozilla 1.0.1 it's based on. Release candidates, betas and nightly builds of Mozilla are the (potentially) unstable builds.
I can't see any point to this article other than to stir up conflict. Usually, I would expect a news outlet to post stories with information in them but this doesn't offer anything more than an opinion. What's to discuss about an opinion? I'd rather see some links to or quotes from studies and some of the evidence the author refers to.