Symphony OS Alpha

Neet Linux distro I just saw on /. It's GUI works on the idea that the Desktop is not a folder. It is a LiveCD, and here is the torrent. (provided by the distro)

Try it out!

--the_sidewinder

Jobs say Intel! Ballmer says meh

As all the rumors that have past over the weekend have proven true (If you missed it, Apple is moving away from PowerPC processors to Intel chips, as told by cNet)
What this means for consumers is not certain, however, Steve Ballmer says that it will not affect the sale of windows in a significant way, again, as reported by cNet.

Hopefully, this has the potential for user to install OSX on a standard PC, as hinted by Jobs, "Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life the past five years." If this is true, we may finally see some real competition in the desktop OS market (I wouldn't mind OSX on my Toshiba laptop, nor would I mind Windows Longhorn on a iMac G5, and Linux on all!). But, again, that is pure speculation on my part.

--the_sidewinder

Song of the day: Contact by Big Audio Dynamite off their Super Hits collection

AMR arrives

According to what I've read on Anandtech, Slashdot, ATi.com and others, that ATi has announced their commercial level AMR (ATi Multi Rendering) called Crossfire. It has many advantages over SLi, such as the ability to use existing X800 and X850 cards in the setup (you can combine an X800 or X850 with a crossfire X800 or X850 to get that dual card wonderness) as well, a new (for the commercial market) display separation scheme called SuperTiling, in Crossfire, this separates the screen into 32 evenly sized portions, in a checkerboard pattern, ensuring that each card has about the same amount of work to do.

The biggest and best part of Crossfire over SLi is that all games receive a graphical boost, not just those that have a "profile." SLi requires this profile to tell the drivers what to do with the extra card, however, ATi has eliminated this need, which gains it more performance, not only in the dual card enabled games, but in your ordinary games as well.

"Compared with two 6800 Ultra SLI, ATI's Crossfire should end up about 10 per cent faster in 3Dmark05 benchmark, about 30 percent in Splinter Cell C.T and more than 60 percent in Need For Speed Underground 2."

Quite some promising numbers there, I, for one, cannot wait to see full benchmarks, and to get my hands on these cards.

--the_sidewinder

(Song of the day: Technologic by Daft Punk on the album "Human After All")