Coincidence?
You decide. Last week, for reasons related specifically to xorg driver issues (read: I couldn’t get it to drive my 1680×1050 panel), I went out and replaced the latest in a long line of ATI-based video cards with an NVidia-based card. Then, I find out that AMD/ATI are shipping a reworked X driver, followed by the announcement that AMD are opening the specifications up (meaning, for those of you not steeped in such issues, that it should be possible for the wide world out there to produce excellent open source drivers without having to guess). Christopher Blizzard provides more context.
I will comfort myself by reflecting on the fact that the card I replaced is too old to be affected by the opening of the specs, and that I still got the near-instant gratification of more screen real estate. I mean, it’s not like I bought an iPhone at launch or anything …
update apparently sad-sack iPhone early adopters are getting a hundred bucks credit (to be spent on Apple products,such as discontinued ipod lines, no doubt …)
Posted: September 6th, 2007 under nerdination.
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