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Nov. 30th, 2006 04:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeks"Because the OS will feature technology called Aero and Flip that will allow for a more 3-D viewing experience, companies like NVIDIA are creating what they call a "graphical processor unit," a board that is designed to fit in a computer and make sure it properly makes use of Aero once Vista is installed."
*record scratch*
Woah, there, buddy. Flaw in your causality. Unless I'm way misinformed (and being a fairly serious PC Gamer you can bet I'm not) we've had GPUs for quite a while now. Average Users probably won't have heard anything about them until Vista but that's because an OS has never required hardcore graphics processing before. I'm not sure that's a 'feature,' myself, but call it what you will. All that aside, though, it's infuriating for you to not only imply but to literally say that NVIDIA is making GPUs 'because' of Vista. Patently false. Microsoft may be the monolithic god of the machines for most users, but not everyone in hardware and software bows and scrapes at Gates' feet.
What NVIDIA and other ARE doing right now is working on a Physics Processing Unit, to take the load of dynamics and collisions and the like off of the CPU. Why? Gaming. Nothing drives hardware development the way gaming does -- server technology is probably the next closest thing, but that's almost entirely bus speed and CPU cycles; storage is cheep unless you make it really fast, and even at that the prices are coming down.
Anyways. My inner- (and outer- I suppose) geek couldn't stand the idea that everything Good and True in the world is because of and catering to Microsoft and it's cludgy operating system.
*record scratch*
Woah, there, buddy. Flaw in your causality. Unless I'm way misinformed (and being a fairly serious PC Gamer you can bet I'm not) we've had GPUs for quite a while now. Average Users probably won't have heard anything about them until Vista but that's because an OS has never required hardcore graphics processing before. I'm not sure that's a 'feature,' myself, but call it what you will. All that aside, though, it's infuriating for you to not only imply but to literally say that NVIDIA is making GPUs 'because' of Vista. Patently false. Microsoft may be the monolithic god of the machines for most users, but not everyone in hardware and software bows and scrapes at Gates' feet.
What NVIDIA and other ARE doing right now is working on a Physics Processing Unit, to take the load of dynamics and collisions and the like off of the CPU. Why? Gaming. Nothing drives hardware development the way gaming does -- server technology is probably the next closest thing, but that's almost entirely bus speed and CPU cycles; storage is cheep unless you make it really fast, and even at that the prices are coming down.
Anyways. My inner- (and outer- I suppose) geek couldn't stand the idea that everything Good and True in the world is because of and catering to Microsoft and it's cludgy operating system.
