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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 21-Sep-2003 18:04 GMT | In reply to Comment 25 (Anonymous):
Anonymous said,
>> I assume this sort of reaction is what Eyetech/Mai are looking for as they
>> refine the design... Anyone hold a conflicting opinion?
> Nope, I agree completely :-). I too want a DVI connection on the board.
> However, unlike you, I want two of them, because TFTs that can do more
> than 1280x1024 are still way too expensive and look set to remain that
> for quite some time. Besides, two inexpensive TFTs each capable of
> doing 1280x1024 will give you approximately 36.5 per cent /more/ screen
> real-estate than one capable of doing 1600x1200.
> Something to think about, eh? :-)
Indeed, that'd rule, but I assume this is *supposed* to be the low-end/cost-reduced model. ;) I'm not sure how the Radeon TV-out works, I assume the chip is at most twin-head (I get the impression this might be a laptop Radeon, don't really know how many 'heads' or features those include), so if you have to shuffle things around, it feels like it'd be best to have the S-Vid on a separate head for convenience of low-end video work or home-entertainment gadgetry.
(Since, for about the next 5-10 years, I imagine big "TVs" will still be more common/affordable than the big 'displays.' ... So it's more likely that myself, as a user, will want to hook it to one 'display' and one 'TV' now - and watch DVD or something on the 'TV' head while working on the main display - and by the time a wall-sized DVI panel is cheap enough, the hardware will probably be old enough that I won't mind dedicating it to the 'embedded' task, as a generic browser-box/MP3 player/DVD player, maybe with an ATSC card in the PCI slot.)
After all, the XE still exists if you want the freedom to drop in a full twinhead card. It'd be nice to see them both hit the same low pricepoint, the XE 'big' and expandable, but with the added cost of supplying your own video card and such, the Lite closer to a full system... Maybe with a 32MB or 64MB SODIMM included so you can boot it out of the box? Those must be down to like $2 in surplus now, though we might still need buffered/registered... |
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