Winblows Longhorn in 3D

[Leathel]

Does anyone has some previews on the new Interphase for Longhorn - I just got done readin the inquire.net's story on it using 2.D shaders and 3D menus - "perfomance may depend on your GPU"

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20691

[Gryph]

Yeah, it's going to use a whole new GUI. Kind of like how Mac OS X uses OpenGL, the new one will use DirectX or whatever Microsoft rolls out with next.

 

EDIT: I just read that article. Wow, atleast SM 2.0 required...wow. I wonder if people will have cards to handle that by then. For ATIs that would be atleast a Radeon 9500 and for NVIDIA it would be atleast a GeForce FX 5200.

Edited January 13, 2005 by GryphonKlaw

[Agozer]

I've heard from some more or less questionable sources that Microsoft will recommend 4Ghz processor for Longhorn. hand me a few grains of salt plzkthx.

[Wizard]

Few more years dude. Few more years and those 4 Ghz we worked so hard for will be the standard.

[Cominus]

So will they be cheap or like impossible to buy?

[Gryph]

I'm sure they'll be pretty moderately priced by then. Hell, Athlon 64 4000+ are here even though they don't technically run at 4 ghz.

[Leathel]

So will they be cheap or like impossible to buy?

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maybe 4Ghz line will be hit, but I think there will be a new performance rating for even Intel - I mean AMD Athlon64 has already released it's 4000+ CPU that runs at a merely 2.4Ghz and we're more than a year away from windows Longhorn release, but it ain't cheap - at least for now being the Ultimate Model maybe the Dual Core CPU's will bring a bigger performance gain once Intel and AMD learn more on how to properly manage resources with less heat loss.

you can see AMD's roadmap here -

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/Virtual...104_608,00.html

 

I'm pretty sure that AMD won't hit the 3Ghz mark atleast until they hit a smaller micron process =)

[Wizard]

But who really cares about what AMD puts out GHz wise. They still put out CPUs that are more superior over Intel for less.

[Gryph]

I'm probably going to upgrade whenever the K9s come out.

[Leathel]

But who really cares about what AMD puts out GHz wise. They still put out CPUs that are more superior over Intel for less.

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I think that AMD may drop it's CPU prices sometime soon, their flash products just took a very severy slump from Intel. Even though Flash memory is not a big part of Intel's revenue, it is for AMD. Let's Hope that AMD contunue to bring out more CPU's in the future and not be overmuscled by Intel, Intel's made AMD's share price drop really fast - badly. One would expect AMD to lower their product prices to counter this... what was it that Intel's Chairman calls it... Infliction point- I believe - correct me if I'm wrong - it's been a while since I read the book.

[alexis]

i do not see a logical reason to switch to another OS, specially one that requires so much power to just work....

[Gryph]

i do not see a logical reason to switch to another OS, specially one that requires so much power to just work....

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They'll be a reason, they'll make something up.

[Agozer]

i do not see a logical reason to switch to another OS, specially one that requires so much power to just work....

They'll be a reason, they'll make something up.

I beat they are going to do a full kernel overhaul so that it loses all backwards compatibility, forcing users to upgrade in order to play the newest games.

Edited January 14, 2005 by Agozer

[Gryph]

Well one of the big things they were touting, the WinFS file system, isn't even going to be in Longhorn.

[alexis]

yeah great, MS shouldn`t push its luck or everyone left in the home niche will be switching to linux, oh linux can´t be used for playing games, really? heh i thought you could play Doom III on it....