The k/b reset problem only occurs with out of spec keyboards in our experience.
Har. This is PC hardware we're talking about. What on earth is "in spec"? :-)
But will Gazza have a "next generation Matrox graphics card"?
Hopefully not. By the time OS4 is realeased, the price of the Parhelia may actually drop below $300!
Hardware is fast enough now for most people's needs. Bottom line is give it a few years and it'll all blend into one soup of irrelevance - Its the OS that counts,...
It already has been that way for years. When I bought my A1200, I tried to convince my family that the Amiga had a better, more effecient architecture, and blah blah blah. My uncle said that PC's are so fast it doesn't matter. Ten years later, millions of PCs sell every year.
Yes, hardware is just a means to an end.
Doesn't that defy the point of running it on x86?
No, just the point of running it on vanilla PC motherboards. You should see how many x86 machines I use at work that have hardware dongles, not only to make sure you don't run the software on another computer, but also so you can't upgrade the CPU, memory, hard drive, or whatever, without completely breaking the software. *ALL* upgrades must be official and authorized, or else the machine won't boot. This is the norm in the workstation market, something most consumers don't ever have the pleasure of experiencing.
Kodak charged us $5,000 to upgrade our dual 450 Mzh Xeon system to dual 800 Mhz processors, without changing ANYTHING else. That's the world of hardware control, for you.
