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I thought they were making an MDK to prevent the issues with drivers, do you know about that at all?

• dogma1138 12y ago
  And how is that any different than the driver development kits, frameworks, hardware development kits and reference design guidelines we have today? With all of those we still got issues, my 600$ creative sound card still doesn't work well with Windows 8, vendors still have to patch BIOS, firmware and micro-codes to sort out compatibility issues, and some hardware compatibility issues are not sorted at all. No matter how well you plan things something will not work, today when a phone vendor designs a phone they can and do ensure that all of the hardware is compatible with each other and that the software works (some do it better than others). Do you really think that every single vendor will be able to test their plug with every other currently in existence? And if they will can you even imagine the cost of such certification process? Motherboard vendors today barely test their boards with 1/3rd of the available memory modules, and on every motherboard manual you'll see warning of at least 5 that don't work at all. All of them follow the exact standard set by JEDEC and still manage to mock it up. On the software level for each motherboard you can see 3-4 BIOS upgrades that patch in support for CPU's additional memory vendors, or increase system stability, this isn't something that i look forward to see on my phone. The only reason why i still don't use an AIO PC is that i play games, and once Steam Boxes come down to reasonable price levels and not 600% branded PC markup I'll probably dump it for one. For the rest of my uses, a laptop, tablet, or some other AIO device will work just fine, and judging by where the market is headed I'm probably not alone in this view.