On 9/3/05, Martin Jeppesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is this the same date for the GFX board? > > > > Maybe a month difference, depending on what challenges we might have > > with the PCB. > > That's fast! > > I have been thinking. Will the band width of the PCI port be reached, and > the AGP and PCI-e will therefore preform better?
For a great many things, yes. 2D makes more efficient use of the engine (even though it's a 3D engine), because 3D tends to work with smaller triangles. Change bus, and you'll notice a marked speedup in 3D stuff. Or you won't, since you're not using it to play Doom 3. :) > > > > > This will be the best $120 I will every spend on hardware! =) > > > > But it IS a guess.... > > Aslong it is below $160 with included world wide shipping, it is fine by me > =) I think we'll pull the same trick as everyone else and charge extra for "shipping and handling". Also, there will be volume discounts. If you and your entire users group want to buy 100 of them in a shot, well, I'm sure we can discuss some better terms for you. :) > > > > This is something we should put serious thought into. If we bother > > them when we have nothing, then they're perhaps less likely to take us > > seriously when we DO have something. "Oh, no. It's THEM again." But > > if hit them when we have something meaningful, they may pay attention. > > Perhaps we should with with the most potential, and get some experinces > with companies that are less likely to be interested? You mean practice your cold-calls? Honestly, at this point, I think it would be best to focus our energy on figuring out how to market the project board. Then when that starts selling, we can figure out how to market the ASIC and the graphics card. You seem to have a marketing flair. Let's put that to use first figuring out who will buy the project board (I'll get you a copy of High Fisher's essay on it), and have a huge list of universities ready to call. We need names of people who make decisions, like professors and heads of IT departments, not to mention universities themselves (I'll take care of Ohio State). When we have the first 10 prototypes, ready to photograph and put on the web, then we hit them up for orders. > Maybe nVidia or ATi would be interested aswell? They would be very UNinterested. Although we don't represent much competition to them, we do represent a market segment that they cannot be a part of, at least not without a lot of flak. They'll want to have nothing to do with us. > > > > > That will surely be a day of joy, when that happens! =) > > > > Indeed. :) > > > > But I guess the part that I am looking the most forward to, is having the > card drivers on the Fedora Core destribution! =) Alan Cox talked with me about getting the drivers into main-line Linux. If we're polite, it'll happen. > It will also be interesting to see, how much people can optimize the > drivers. Oh, me too. That's going to be one of the coolest things, seeing how people make use of the hardware in ways that we didn't expect or intend. They'll know 95% of it from the start, but when the RTL comes out, they'll find, I'm sure, a few more quirks to play with. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
