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Re: Laptop with 3D support - anyone?
Actually, Dell has started rolling these out too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Baker" <sjbaker1@airmail.net>
To: <linuxgames@sunsite.dk>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Laptop with 3D support - anyone?
>
> Laptop with 3D support?....Well, there is new news!
>
> I just got this from a guy where I work:
>
> JEvans0000@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > The Toshiba Satellite 2805-S402 is out:
> > NVIDIA® GeForce2 GoTM graphics controller w/16MB
> > SGRAM (4X AGP)
> > Hi-fi sound system with built-in subwoofer
> > Mobile Pentium® III 850MHz processor
> > featuring Intel® SpeedStepTM technology
> > DVD/CD-RW multifunction drive
> > 15" TFT LCD color display
> > 128MB SDRAM
> > 20GB1 HD
> > Integrated 10/100 Ethernet and V.90 modem
> > i.Link (IEEE 1394) port
> > A combination 6X DVD/4X CD-RW/24X CD-ROM built in.
> >
> > I saw it at CompUsa 2399.99.
>
> ...looks like a pretty hot 3D Laptop - and $2.4k isn't all *that*
> much as laptops go.
>
> The only *bad* part is that it only has 16Mb of video RAM - which
> presumably means it's going to be short on texture memory...also,
> it's not clear whether that RAM is going to be fast enough to get
> a reasonable pixel fill rate.
>
> Still, it's overall 3D performance is going to be at least 50 times
> better than any other Laptop out there - so it's gonna be a
> pretty cool toy.
>
> So, the next question is "Who has the nerve for buy one
> and see if (a) it actually runs Linux and (more risky)
> (b) do the nVidia's OpenGL-for-Linux drivers work on it?"
>
> ...and the question after that is "How am I going to pursuade
> my wife that I need one?" (Whoever said "It's easier to beg
> forgiveness than ask permission" didn't marry a French woman).
>
> :-)
>
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