Hello!

Does this mean that there are now good drivers for the ATI mobility rage 16M
card on the OS W2K?

Best regards
Thomas







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Date:    Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:20:03 -0700
From:    Jon Barrilleaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware acc on laptop

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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> Jon Barrilleaux      3800 Lake Shore Ave.     Consulting for 3D
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__________________ JMB and Associates, Inc. ___________________
Jon Barrilleaux      3800 Lake Shore Ave.     Consulting for 3D
[EMAIL PROTECTED]       Oakland, CA 94610        Web Applications
510.444.0231 voc                                & Tech Industry
510.444.0231 fax       www.jmbaai.com                Management

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Date:    Sat, 7 Oct 2000 12:12:41 -0700
From:    Priti Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Invitation for the Java3D MMORPG mail list

Hi,
  I would love to join too.

Thanks
Priti

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ASU
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Phone (R) - 480 - 4493762
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Ice Bone wrote:

> Hi.
>
> If you haven't received an invitation to the Java3D
> MMORPG list please email me and I'll will forward one
> to you right away.  You don't need an invitation but
> it might things a bit easier.
>
> This service is located on eGroups which will also
> allow you to get all emails, in the list, in a single
> digest format email and it will archive the emails for
> you so that you can search them online through a web
> browser.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ed
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