Alex "Sharky" Ross heeft het zesde deel van zijn Private Eye series online geplant. In deze editie o.a. een top 10 van producten die iedereen wel onder de kerstboom wil zien liggen, een update over Bill's mysterieuze X-Box, wat issues over Coppermine processors en Abit mobo's, en een interview met Scott Sellers van 3dfx. Hieronder wat voorspellen voor het jaar 2000 door paragnost Sharky:
- 1GHz CPUs will see the light of day in the mainstream by Q4 with Intel's 1GHz Willamette going toe to toe with AMD's 1GHz Athlon. Will it never end? Probably not..
- Daikatana will be out in the US & Europe (i.e. not out this year)
- Creative will walk down the aisle with NVIDIA
- Matrox will announce the successor to the G400 chip
- Matrox will also unveil a new "Turbo" G400 AGP 4X version of the G400. This chip will most likely be manufactured on a .18micron process but will it harbor T&L? Now that's the question…
- RAMBUS will still charge way too much per megabyte
- 3dfx' VSA-100 chip will be released to go head-to-head with NVIDIA's "spring refresh". Hand bags at six paces, that sort of stuff…
- The Microsoft X-Box will be delayed until the end of 2001.
- ATI's Rage Fury MAXX will hit the shelves in Q1. It'll compete well with SDRAM based GeForce's but struggle against the DDR boards and the 'spring refresh' from NVIDIA.
- The Y2K bug will bite those annoying TV "I know it all and think I'm trendy because I use OS/2 Warp on a 286" journalists on the rear.
- Gigapixel and Bitboys Oy will go toe to toe with press releases announcing 5Gigapixel fill rates.
- Adults that are seen hopping skipping, jumping and generally acting like Sonic the Hedgehog during rush hours across the globe will be blamed on video games by the mass media.
- The Playstation 2 will become a roaring success and sell well over 500,000 units in its first two months of life.
- Jon Simon will finally quit his Tribes addiction in favor of Tribes 2. That's the plan anyway…
