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So USB or PS/2?
richms:
Friend got a motherboard with just one PS2 on it - cant recall if its a mouse or keyboard one - but they are going away slowly.
Hoopz:
--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on February 03, 2009, 08:14:42 pm ---Did Fronty just pull an ahigh ?
Was it something we said ?
:dunno
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Damn. I thought the ahigh reference was funny but seeing someone kill there account is never a good thing.
RandyT:
--- Quote from: Blanka on February 04, 2009, 02:02:44 am ---This time it is different. We are about to say goodbye to the ATX mobo-form factor for >80% of all desktops, and consider most computers sold are notebooks! Who buys a seperate mobo nowadays? Small is the new form factor, and that kills space for a PS2 port. Especially when there is a new battle between HDMI/DP/DVI that needs a playing field on the port-bay somewhere!
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The reality of these tiny, power-packed, power efficient devices is still a long way off. The value is also questionable. Small costs more, and is less convenient for a lot of applications. Separate boxes and power supplies for all of your peripherals and storage devices? No expansion or upgrade options outside of USB? Really? No thanks...... For a dedicated application like a MAME box, assuming the price becomes something other than obscene for the "good stuff", maybe. But once you add room in the box for a couple of drives, it's pointless to pay more for a smaller MOBO. Simple economics.....
Keep in mind that the "Euro" market differs from the US market as well.
--- Quote from: richms on February 04, 2009, 05:09:32 am ---Friend got a motherboard with just one PS2 on it - cant recall if its a mouse or keyboard one - but they are going away slowly.
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It still has the keyboard PS/2 port, which is the important one. The fact that they dropped the mouse and kept the keyboard should prove to the skeptics that the value of that port is still very much understood by the manufacturers and users. The loss of the PS/2 mouse port on models where they are trying to save space is a no-brainer. You don't need a mouse to configure the hardware, and the PS/2 keyboard almost always works better for that task.
RandyT
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Hoopz on February 04, 2009, 06:38:44 am ---Damn. I thought the ahigh reference was funny but seeing someone kill there account is never a good thing.
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Agreed, but deleting all of your posts first is pretty damned douchy.
It also seems that his website is gone.
:dunno
Blanka:
--- Quote from: RandyT on February 04, 2009, 01:18:13 pm ---The fact that they dropped the mouse and kept the keyboard should prove to the skeptics that the value of that port is still very much understood by the manufacturers and users.
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The problem is that they still haven't killed the BIOS. How am I going to explain my kids Bios in 2017? Intel managed to sell its successor only to Apple. So as long as there is BIOS, there will be some PS2 around. They are Siamese twins. Kill Bios and PS2 will be dead next week.
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