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A little heads up for nerds, geeks and tech heads in the Toledo, Ohio and surrounding areas.

Josh Pollard has made a post on his blog suggesting it’s time we have another Nerd Dinner.  It’s been a looong time since the last one so I agree.  The first one was pretty good but the last one was a bit on the small side.  I’ve suggested a weekend dinner instead of middle of the week like the last ones were.

So, if you’re in the area and would like to meet up then please stop by Josh’s site and give your support

http://josh.glmotorsports.net/blog/archive/2005/03/14/571.aspx

Kinda old news now but I’m just catching up on gaming news.  As a self-professed N-head I like to know what they’re up to…

Here’s a couple of links to read about everything:
http://cube.ign.com/articles/594/594935p1.html
http://planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=6094

The cool info is that the Revolution will be backwards compatible with the GameCube.  Thank goodness!  I hope this sets a trend for the future at the big N.  I hope whatever comes after the Revolution will be backwards compatible with both the Revolution and the GameCube.  I know it’s far fetched but I think they should support at least 2-3 generations back.  We as gamers pay a lot for games and there’s no reason that we shouldn’t be able to trade in the hardware for the next generation and still be able to use the current software we have.

Other bits of info.  The graphics chip “Hollywood” will again be made my ATI.  I like this fact a lot.  ATI is a top level graphics company and if the chipset is based on their current desktop graphics systems it’ll be one heck of a performance champ. 

The cpu “Broadway” is being done by IBM.  A bit surprised by this one.  IBM is also developing the cpu for the next gen Playstation called Cell.  Although they aren’t saying that Broadway is anything like Cell I kind of have to wonder if maybe they’re going to be related.  What would be cool is if “Broadway” turned out to be a dual core PowerPC chip.  IBM makes the PowerPC chips that go into Macs and they’re planning to make a dual core PowerPC G5 cpu for the Macs. 

Throw in a dual-core PowerPC cpu and a graphics chip from ATI and you’d have one heck of a system.  MMM yummy.

Finally the big news is the Revolution will have built in wi-fi.  The Nintendo DS has wi-fi and it looks like Nintendo is pushing forward with this as a standard feature for the future.  Very cool!  I like the idea of wi-fi built into all gaming systems.  I already have wi-fi setup in the house so I’d have instant networking out of the box.

I can’t wait to see more details about the Rev.  Looks to be a pretty sweet product.