Longhorn 3D UI Preview

Thats all nice and flashy but how does it help my using the computer ? :?:
Oh wait this is MS and all their OS is supposed to do is look good and flashy and not do anything useful :rolleyes: :LOL:
 
High on coolness factor I suppose, though usefulness of what was demoed there is questionable. I imaging that the time spent on navigating and arranging windows will increase quite a bit with interfaces like that.
 
That is why you have Unix... :)

Nothing like running your applications and benchmarks on a 32 way, 875Mhz, 32 GB Superdome :) Oh, and gobs of disk space

PC is only used to run excel and I can do that with gnu plot but I'm lazy at times...
 
Humus said:
High on coolness factor I suppose, though usefulness of what was demoed there is questionable. I imaging that the time spent on navigating and arranging windows will increase quite a bit with interfaces like that.
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I figure there will be a "kill the useless crap" function somewhere and it might simply turn then into winXP for dummies....errr wait that sounds familiar :oops:
 
im not really too concerned about it taking more time to navigate between windows. there will be a classic windows theme in there somewhere.
 
BeOS had such a prototype internally, the reason behind it was to speed up the desktop rendering using the new computer 3D capabilities.
Good idea IMO.

Don't know if we really need it to be 3D but using the 3D card to speed up the rendering is nice.
 
Ingenu said:
BeOS had such a prototype internally, the reason behind it was to speed up the desktop rendering using the new computer 3D capabilities.
Good idea IMO.

Don't know if we really need it to be 3D but using the 3D card to speed up the rendering is nice.
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Don't current video cards speed up 2D desktop rendering already? I am sure that the Windows GUI is taking advantage of todays video cards.
 
Yes, video cards do accelerate Windows, but you can only accelerate the GDI so much before it becomes bogged down.

DirectDraw also does get some acceleration, but it's still mostly software IIRC.
 
Upke said:
So I need a Direct X 9 video card to run the Tier 2 desktop environment? (Currently a Gef 4 TI)
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Certainly looks that way.

I see with my crystal balls a big push from Intel, VIA, SiS, NVIDIA and ATI for integrated DX9 class GPU's :)
 
I can see the point about tearing and not drawing behind windows that have just been moved but not quite sure why environment maps and bumpmapping is useful :-?
 
well xp does use hardware acceleration in 2. drag that blue selection box over a bunch of files on a non accelerated card (voodoo5) and it'll lag so much. going from the v5 to a gf4, on the same system, it doesnt lag at all with the gf4.
 
Snyder said:
Just noticed: AGP 8x or PCI-Express required? For what?
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I bet that PCI-Express will quickly become the de-facto standard. AGP 8x is well dated before it even came out.

I think MS is trying to scare all the OEM's into submission with their extremely high specs... but Longhorn is out when?
 
Tahir said:
I think MS is trying to scare all the OEM's into submission with their extremely high specs... but Longhorn is out when?
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IIRC late 2004 or early 2005 from what I read, so it's still far off.
 
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