Friday, December 03, 1999, 11:17:50 AM, Paul wrote:
> Ultimately, they are getting off their butts again and the next gen looks
> really good. My point: Had they not had such a death grip on the market,
> they would have lost serious market share when the other cards caught up/out
> paced them.
> My final analysis. The only good standard is an open standard. Any company
> offering a closed standard or subverting an existing standard is not your
> friend. Due to explosive market pressure, 3DFX is getting much better.
Even with the Voodoo4 and Voodoo5 around the corner the only thing that is
replacing my Viper V550 will be a GeForce256[1] with dual RAM, preferably one
from Diamond if they will make it. If not, then from ASUS or Creative. I
don't care if the Voodoo4/5 does outpace the GeForce, 3dfx just isn't a
company I want to support.
[1] Of course people could point out that there is always the Viper V770
Ultra with TNT2, but I figure if I'm going to make the leap to a new card (and
from PCI to AGP at that) I might as well hold out since the GeForce is right
around the corner.
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