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  • coffeeshark - Thursday, February 2, 2006 - link

    I was at Anand's LA speech, I thought it went well, if he wasn't happy with it, it still looked and sounded good to us in the small audience that was there.

    The OCUR was actually completely new to me, and it was good to hear an opinion from someone other than a vendor on the upcoming releases in the computer industry.

    so thanks for the talk, Anand, we enjoyed it and were impressed by your knowledge.
  • DigitalFreak - Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - link

    ...that the suprise is either the OCUR or an Ageia PhysX card.
  • judmarc - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link

    1. Anything about HD satellite support from ATI, particularly now that DirecTV is transitioning to mpeg4?

    2. Anyone have an idea how I would go about networking my video stuff (mainly satellite) downstairs with my wireless-router-connected PC upstairs? 2a. Any way to transmit the satellite tuner *output* over the network so that it can be viewed on the PC?
  • erwos - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link

    I had a feeling it would be the OCUR - the way you were drooling over that thing, there's no way the ATI guys could hold it back from you!

    Could you please stress to them that the ethernet-enabled OCURs would be _greatly_ appreciated? Not all of us have our cable jacks right next to our computers, and I'd much prefer to just run some Ethernet cable than relocate my entire computing setup. It also makes it a lot easier to run an HTPC - instead of buying a midtower to hold all the cards I need, I can buy a much smaller box for doing processing, and a few OCURs to do tuning (dual-tuner variants also would be nice).

    Also, LINUX DRIVERS! Please, please don't leave all those MythTV users in the cold. I personally plan to make a Windows-centered digital home, but I'd prefer actually having the choice, rather than just being forced into the deal. Mac drivers would also be good, depending on where Apple heads with Front Row.

    Finally, make sure they adequately provision it so it can handle 1080p. That involves both the device's internal processor _and_ the ethernet interface on it.

    -Erwos
  • michaelheath - Sunday, January 22, 2006 - link

    Hello Anand,

    Having been a long time Mac user and having experienced the Apple cult-like following from both the user and retailer perspectives, I can actually understand the decision to keep the overall design change to a minimum. For a community of PC users that often times openly flaunt their alternative computing and love the pioneering "aesthetic balanced with functionality" components they use, many Mac users are surprisingly conservative and quite fearful of change. There are still Mac users who refuse to update their old machines to Mac OS X that I support at this point, citing that "it feels too much like Windows," and there are people who think that having an Intel processor inside a Mac means that they're one step away from having Windows running on a Mac and having to suffer all the pitfalls that go along with it. It reminds me of way back when Apple announced at MacWorld that Microsoft was going to start making Office products for the Macintosh: everyone in the audience booed.

    My feeling is Apple decided to keep the iMac as it was designed for those who are afraid of dramatic changes like this. First of all, iMac G5's and PowerBook G4's are still available from Apple. Also, in the store where I work, I quietly swapped out the demo iMac G5 for a Core Duo earlier this week, used a FireWire cable to transfer all the data and settings on initial set-up, and let it run on demo without fanfare. Customers who are Apple developers on campus couldn't even tell the difference just by looking at it. They had to run an application with Universal Binary programming for it or open System Profiler to find out what CPU it was running on.

    With any hope, Mac customers can be de-programmed to hate Intel, but I get the feeling there will always be that certain someone with pitchfork and torch in hand demanding their PowerPC-based Macintosh.
  • monsoon - Saturday, January 21, 2006 - link

    Hello Anand, glad to hear from you...

    i was wondering if you have spotted any Yonah AOpen mini PCs already; can't wait for your review !=)

    Agreed on the looks of the MacBook Pro; they'll come up with new designs, they just need more time...

    Cheers
    A.

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