Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Feb 2006 22:17 UTC, submitted by Jeremy
Roughly half of today's PCs won't be able to take advantage of the 'Aero Glass' compositor found within Microsoft's upcoming Vista software, due at the end of this year. The estimate was one of the conclusions cited in a report released late Thursday by Jon Peddie Research. The fault, Peddie reported, was that the low-cost integrated graphics controllers customers have chosen process the 2D windows of Windows XP and Windows 2000 just fine, but lack the bells and whistles necessary to process the Windows Desktop Compositing Engine used in Vista. About 63 percent of the 203 million PCs sold used an integrated graphics controller, JPR reported.
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2006-02-11
Raver31, The real reason just about all the computers at retail stores like BestBuy have integrated graphics is not because BestBuy sells most of its computer to businesses. It's because pc vendors are cost cutting. My point was that vendors need to sell balanced systems to consumers.
Wow I can't believe you took that 90% figure to heart. It was just a number to make a point about how it will take time for Vista to be adopted, meaning graphics card prices will decrease. In that whole paragraph that is all you got out of it? The "90%"?
No the only people who want 3D interfaces are not gamers. Look at the direction linux is going in. They are trying to incorporate 3d effects into the GUI. For one example go look at a video demoing Novell Desktop Linux 10. So are you saying linux users are gamers who have no idea what goes on in the business world? Interesting..
Edited 2006-02-11 18:05