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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