Sidney Ho wrote:
> A speedy, powerful CPU will do little for the 2400's video ram deficiency,
> which really limits its subjective feeling of speed.
Just to point out (because you've mentioned this twice), it's not the speed
of the video RAM that limits the speed of the display. Rather, the RAM is
tailored to the needs of the video hardware that actually pushes pixels to
the screen, and that speed depends on the engineering of the video chip(s)
- clock speed, bus width, and general design. The Chips & Technologies
video in the 2400c actually does very nice accelerated 2D, and I don't find
it appreciably slower for most 2D work than the RAGE Pro chips that are in
the newer Powerbooks (though the RAGE 128 should be faster). It has no 3D
hardware at all, of course, which is the major shortcoming of the 2400 for
video.
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