[01/03/2000]
New graphics card rumor
IMG has news that a small Finnish company called Bitboys Oy (reminds me of the little racoon in one of Steven Kings books) are soon going to release a new graphics card called the "Glaze 3D". The card uses some new embedded RAM technology, enabling far higher memory throughputs, especially in combination with a 512bit bus... The card will even be faster than a Voodoo5, with 1.2 billion pixels per second throughput. Mac Driver support seems to be quite likely, cool!! Better read the article yourself.

[01/03/2000]
Gateway sells Amiga
MacWEEK has a report that Gateway just sold the name and idea of Amiga to a former Amiga employee a few days ago. The guy intends to revive the Amiga. Since the company went bankrupt several years ago, the best solution was to get a Mac and run the Amiga over an Emulator. This might now change again. MacWEEK

[01/03/2000]
Embarrassing!
MacObserver reports that an official brochure for Windows 2000 features a picture of a Mac running Netscape. Not only does that mean Microsoft allowed a Mac into their brochure, it also means they advertize for their enemy's Webbrowser.. Uhh, billy... MacObserver

[01/03/2000]
Fix for Q3?
Many, many people have had problems connecting to servers with their dial-up connection, most were stuck at "awaiting cd key...", now MGL might have found a solution for this problem. I have not checked whether it works or not, but I'll do asap. MGL
The fix reportedly helped several GR users, but I was without luck. (64k ISDN)

[01/03/2000]
G4 vs Athlon
I found this on slashdot. ArsTechnica has posted a comparison of the G4 against the Athlon. I have not read it yet, but I will. See for yourself.
I now read the article and I must say "Hannibal" remains astoundingly unbiased, bravo. However, many of the down sides of the G4 against the K7 will most likely be extinct with the G4+ arriving. Not only does the G4+ add 2 more integer and 2 more Altivec units (which means 4 IEUs and 4 VPUs compared to 3 IEUs and 3 FPUs (not optimized for Vector processing), it will also lenghten the pipeline to 7 stages. I'm pretty sure the G4+ will be much faster than the G4. You can read more details on this topic over at DreaMaCH