Mid Day Reviewage...

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Ditching PS/2, serial, and parallel ports gave Abit a little extra room to squeeze more USB and Firewire ports onto the AT7 MAX, but it also cut down on the board's compatibility and expandability. PS/2 keyboards, mice, and KVM switches were unusable with the original AT7 MAX, and the board's three PCI slots left some enthusiasts wanting.

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Recently many companies have released USB Storage drives from sizes ranging from 16MB all the way to 1GB on a small device around to the size of a lighter. Not only do these storage drives enable quick transfers and the ability to store more data, but they require no driver installation on many of the newer operating systems. (True plug and play!) But can we really say goodbye to the floppy disk?

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The Goliath 2 SE is huge! I don’t know how else to describe it. As you see in the picture below, the size is just over 3 inches and the weight of the copper makes it quite heavy. The fins used to dissipate heat are very thin and do a very impressive job of allowing cool air through the heatsink as well as getting rid of heat. Thanks to its copper base, good temps are anticipated from it.

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As I said before, I am impressed with Lycoris. They have made a good start at making Linux accessible to the casual user. There is a long way to go yet but the makers should be proud of the work they have done. It is capable of competing with Windows in the home, something which other distro's of Linux have not yet achieved. However Lycoris could not compete with Red Hat or similar distro's in a workstation environment. Then again, you wouldn't use XP Home edition as a workstation OS. Lycoris is to XP Home what Red Hat is to XP Professional.