News - Gigabyte preps 3D UEFI BIOS for Sandy Bridge Extreme

[HEXUS]

Upcoming X79 motherboards get an interactive makeover.

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[AlexKitch]

I think calling it '3D' is a bold claim

Neat I suppose - but I'm not really sure who it's going to appeal to. It's fair to say that the vast majority of people who actually play around with a BIOS are power users anyway - and not likely to be interested in this.

[shaithis]

Yup, I think isometric would be a better term...

[kalniel]

That's a bit naff. If they set it up so that it detected which slots and ports you'd plugged things into and showed them/allowed you to change the settings that way, it'd be way cooler/more useful.

[Tattysnuc]

I like it, but as someone's already said, it's an isometric projection, not 3d.

Hope the concept is taken up by other manufacturers and expanded upon.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

brilliant

[semo]

I like it, but as someone's already said, it's an isometric projection, not 3d.

Hope the concept is taken up by other manufacturers and expanded upon.

Too late. 3D is much easier to market . Just look at stereoscopic TVs.

[Steve]

About 15 years ago I had a computer with a BIOS that had a mouse-driven GUI. In searching for a pic of it I found a slashdot article about how the BIOS will be dead soon. Interesting. Anyway, here's the pic:



Funnily enough, when I updated the BIOS, the mouse-driven GUI was replaced with standard text-mode... they probably ran out of room for it in the ROM.