[geeks] recieved from a co-worker

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:15:59AM -0500, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Recieved the following diatribe from a co-worker.  Thoughts?
> I already submitted my take on it, but I'm interested in what other
> folks "in the know" have to say.
> Kurt

Nice, but who *needs* that kind of power?  I have a GeForce 2MX in my
machine, and I cant think of anything I'd need to upgrade for.  The 2MX
runs great with the games I play.  I'm more a fan of playability and
entertainment than "you can see the pores on the other guy's skin".

Bill

> -----------------------------------------
> The GeForce4 Ti can render about 100 dinosaurs with the same level of
> complexity as what was seen in the motion picture Jurassic Park at 30
> frames per second.
> 8 of the new chips have more geometry power than all of the 3dfx
> Voodoo1-based graphics cards ever shipped.
> A single GeForce4 chip sports more floating point calculation ability
> than
> existed on the entire planet in 1985. 
> Over a trillion ops per second.
> 10 times the power of the SGI nFinite Reality when it was first
> introduced
> ($500,000).
> Cool :)
> Who wants one?  $399 initially, then cheaper.

-- 
Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX