I forgot to mention, the following comparison is based on using the
OpenGL version of j3d.
Also, I'm not sure what flavor of matrox display card I have at work,
which is of recent vintage, but it is dog slow by comparison to the
laptop and my development machine.
--jon
Jon Barrilleaux wrote:
>
> For those collecting relative performance numbers, here are a few...
>
> My wife just bought the Dell inspiron laptop, 600MHz with the ATI
> mobility rage and running w2k. I tried it with the the more demanding
> examples from my book (e.g. CameraNavigating, with the "flying"
> camera). The geometry performance(i.e. high frame rate when the
> display is small) seemed comparable to my development system, NT
> 266MHz with a Fire GL Pro 1000 (an old but still very good) card , but
> the pixel performance (same app full screen) is not nearly as good
> (about half to a third the update rate) as the Fire GL card.
>
> --jon
>
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am going to buy a laptop in order to run my java3D application. The
> > application is pretty demanding on a normal PC and is absolutely dependant
> > on hardware accelleration.
> >
> > My understanding is that a Dell Inspiron with the ATI 128 Rage Mobility with
> > 16M vram on it is a good choice.
> >
> > Now I have two questions.
> >
> > 1) If I buy a Dell Inspiron, which OS can I choose and still run the java3D?
> > Will it work with W2K? Is it possible to run NT (which I am used to use)?
> >
> > 2) Which of the Dell Inspiron series is the best to buy for java3D
> > performance?
> >
> > 3) What other laptops are as good as or better than the Dell machines for
> > Java3D?
> >
> > Thanx
> > Th
>
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