Well, this is interesting. Some out-of-the-box thinkers at DFI decided that it was silly to limit ourselves to one computer per box — so they made a motherboard that will support two completely different configurations that you can switch between at will.
You could do a high-power and low-power thing, as they demonstrate with an Atom and traditional socket 775-based setup living together on the board, or you could have similar setups running different OSes. The possibilities are… well, they’re not endless, but they’re certainly more than you had before.
I liked this better when it was the Commodore 128D. 3 motherboards, 3 OSes, one case.
Ha. Well played.
I wonder how they deal with Microsoft asking you for 2 separate licenses for the same computer, or at least Windows not complaining about being disabled by significant changes on the hardware list, or by Office not complaining about the same.
I wonder if it wouldn’t be much to ask for Intel to come for a solution that’s kinda like this but at the chip level. Like a 3 cores chip that sports Core2Duo (two cores) and an Atom third one, and pair it with a DECENT enough chipset (You get to add your graphics card too). You know? So they can miniaturize things better and we get to see this on a laptop (where this would be really useful).
They’ve probably considered that, but either it costs too much for what it would be or it’s too much of a value and causes the rest of their stuff to be less. But what you propose would certainly be possible (and a good idea).
that looks awesome, you can keep your audio ports working from one computer while switching over, power for either machine… pass files back and fourth…
looks like at this time alot of the options i would be looking for out of the box are there. however pricing i cant imagine would be very friendly haha
but nice to see the technology moving!
finally mac and pc can live in harmony
Supermicro, et al have been doing this for a while for servers: http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/1UTwin.cfm
Atlantic City casinos have become so numb to receiving their revenue figures each month, that the process does not bring nearly the joy that it used to. For September, however, the casinos can claim at least a small victory.
For the first time in many months, the revenue decrease from one year to the next in month over month figures was less than double digits. In September, revenue at the casinos was down 5.8%. Four of the eleven casinos even experienced an increase in revenue.
“I hope we’re seeing signs that things are starting to stabilize,” said Mark Juliano, CEO of Trump Entertainment Resorts, as reported by The Associated Press, “Perhaps the double-digit (declines) might be behind us. The real question is how long until we get back to the results we saw in past years, which is the question everyone in the business has.”
Actually, many in the industry are wondering if Atlantic City casinos will ever see the glory they once experienced. Competition in the Northeast is becoming fierce, and people no longer have to travel to AC to do their gambling.
Connecticut and New York have both expanded casino gambling options for their residents. Pennsylvania has also opened new casinos, and table games for Pennsylvania casinos may not be far off, with lawmakers already talking about table game expansion.
Atlantic City casinos, however, will take small victories if they are a means to an end for an awful year and a half worth of revenue figures. The double digit declines have been adding up, and several casinos have already gone into bankruptcy in the city.
For September, AC casinos won $335.4 million. That is down almost six percent from last year, but considering the sixteen percent drop in revenue in August, September figures do not look that bad.