__/ [ GreyCloud ] on Saturday 29 July 2006 22:31 \__
> Mark Kent wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>NVIDIA with Linux Wins Two 'Best of Show' Awards at Developer Conference
>>>
>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The demonstration from NVIDIA was designed to illustrate the experience
>>>| consumers can expect from the next generation of multimedia enabled
>>>| handheld devices. It consisted of high performance 3D applications
>>>| including Siege from Denied Reality and Quake3 from id Software running
>>>| on a Linux operating system...
>>>`----
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060728231233703
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>>
>> See what I mean - the PC is dead - welcome to the world of
>> mobility/handheld/portable...
>>
>>
>
> I'm looking at it, but I still can't get what the big thing is about
> mobile or portable when I don't go anywhere these days. Guess I'll have
> to go down to the local Best Buy store and have them explain it to me.
I'm on the same boat as you, Grey. I am not ready to depart from the desktop.
I will not be returning to laptops, either. They are here to stay for quite
some time, but the use of mobile devices will probably rise as they manage
to emulate the experience of an immobile machine (bandwidth, size, user
interaction, capacity).
> But didn't AMD buy Nvidia just recently? If they did, that could change
> things drastically.
That was ATi.
Best wishes,
Roy
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