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Crossroads of computer life
We stand at the crossroads in a time of high unrest.
All I can do is survey the market out there, unfortunately it doesn’t look good.
We all seem to be blindly following a company who are falling behind their competitors and who, for all we know, are fully pulling out of the gaming market for a year or so.
To be honest, over the past week or so I have woken up, smelt the coffee and suddenly I’m looking around again.
I’m not taking that “blinked” views of the gaming graphics card market the way so many of us have in the past.
When the last generation of graphics cards were announced and started to make their way onto the market I had no doubt in my eyes which card I was going to buy.
After being both a Millennium & Mystique 220 owner, the G400 MAX was the only card for me.
I must also admit that it has been a fun 18 months.
For 12 of those 18 months I have had a card that can compete with the best of them, despite it’s age.
I could even sit back and have a laugh when such issues as Diablo II slow-downs being a Nvidia issue only.
Chuckle at the crazy driver release schedule by the likes of Nvidia; “I have a problem with this game”
“Have you tried today’s 9:00am drivers as the 4:46pm ones are a little flakey.
Suddenly I find myself looking at the horizon, I can just about make something out in the sunlight, I know that if I follow the path I am on I will eventually get to it.
The problem is, once I get there it might be useless for what I want, it might be a business card that I spend the next 6 months walking towards on my current path.
To the left & right of me I can see glittery things.
A path leading to Radeon by ATI, a new path, but one that seems to have had quite a few people go down it.
A path leading to Nvidia, a well walked path, but there is something ‘eerie’ about this path, as if there are things we can’t see, things you can’t be sure of.
Finally a path leading to 3DFX, the horizon shows that although this single track towards 3DFX stops a few miles down the road, suddenly it branches into many smaller ones.
I stand at this crossroads, I can actually hear the callings “GTS2, NV20 soon, Radeon, Radeon MAXX soon, VooDoo4, VooDoo5 soon.”
The problem is, I hear no calling from my current path, is it time to make a change?
All I can do is survey the market out there, unfortunately it doesn’t look good.
We all seem to be blindly following a company who are falling behind their competitors and who, for all we know, are fully pulling out of the gaming market for a year or so.
To be honest, over the past week or so I have woken up, smelt the coffee and suddenly I’m looking around again.
I’m not taking that “blinked” views of the gaming graphics card market the way so many of us have in the past.
When the last generation of graphics cards were announced and started to make their way onto the market I had no doubt in my eyes which card I was going to buy.
After being both a Millennium & Mystique 220 owner, the G400 MAX was the only card for me.
I must also admit that it has been a fun 18 months.
For 12 of those 18 months I have had a card that can compete with the best of them, despite it’s age.
I could even sit back and have a laugh when such issues as Diablo II slow-downs being a Nvidia issue only.
Chuckle at the crazy driver release schedule by the likes of Nvidia; “I have a problem with this game”
“Have you tried today’s 9:00am drivers as the 4:46pm ones are a little flakey.
Suddenly I find myself looking at the horizon, I can just about make something out in the sunlight, I know that if I follow the path I am on I will eventually get to it.
The problem is, once I get there it might be useless for what I want, it might be a business card that I spend the next 6 months walking towards on my current path.
To the left & right of me I can see glittery things.
A path leading to Radeon by ATI, a new path, but one that seems to have had quite a few people go down it.
A path leading to Nvidia, a well walked path, but there is something ‘eerie’ about this path, as if there are things we can’t see, things you can’t be sure of.
Finally a path leading to 3DFX, the horizon shows that although this single track towards 3DFX stops a few miles down the road, suddenly it branches into many smaller ones.
I stand at this crossroads, I can actually hear the callings “GTS2, NV20 soon, Radeon, Radeon MAXX soon, VooDoo4, VooDoo5 soon.”
The problem is, I hear no calling from my current path, is it time to make a change?
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