Hmm breaktrughs or new exiting things in todays computerworld ? Hmmm not that big ones but for me at leased Is the chip market the upcoming PPU "when it becomes usefull" physics processing unit btw, as well as i am interested in seeing the ATI\AMD chip cpu\gpu combination and how cheap it is and not too say power efficient.. Just minor things really but things are happnening like quad core annyone? with hyperthreading and 4 cores will soon be real.. Seems we are hitting a multicore market now with better multitasking compability something that i have missed to be honest... To be allowed to run several hard core power hungry 3d,video,rendering apps at the same time and allow you to have more workflow.. I have had the feeling for the previous years that the software always want more than the best hardware can give but now with my latest dual intel Dual-Core Xeon 3ghz seems no software is able to break it as hardware is winning back its place the same goes for say my gaming computer a amd x2 4400 with 1 gig mem or even my core duo notebook they all are much better hardware compared to programs requirements for say 2 years ago IMO! ...
As for new os i have moved too Ubuntu linux and do 80% of all my work from there :-P and it will only become better and better and at leased this os work as you want it too work ..