Jim, Per reports out today GeForce laptop support is on the way.... See: http://yahoo.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-3654402.html as well as: http://www.planethardware.com/features/articles/comdex_00/index-gf2go.shtml No affiliations here with any of those organizations, just excited anticipation.... Regards, Gregory Jim Schatzman wrote: > > To add my 2 cents to this issue: > > Have run benchmarks on both Dell Inspiron 5000 and 5000e. Here are my > results using Win2K on both platforms: > > 1) Both machines fail about half the J3D benchmarks I tried with the > Java3D 1.2 DirectX version. "Fail" means fail to run, black screen > and/or crash the JVM. Those benchmarks that actually ran did so > much faster than the corresponding OpenGL-based Java3D benchmarks. > Unfortunate that the DirectX implementation (as of J3D 1.2) is apparently > not quite all there yet.... > > 2) Both machines ran my benchmark suite correctly with the OpenGL version > of Java3D 1.2. Performance: about 20% of the speed of a NVidia GeForce 2 MX > on desktops with similar CPU (700-750 MHz PIII/700 MHz Athlon/800MHz > Thunderbird) for benchmarks that were limited by the speed of the 3D engine. > My conclusion: Dell still does not support hardware acceleration with Java3D, > or their acceleration support is inadequate. > > Is anyone aware of a laptop available yet using the NVidia GeForce 2Go chipset? > > Thanks- > > Jim Schatzman > > At 09:10 AM 11/13/2000 -0500, you wrote: > >Thanks for the info, Lee. We just bought a 5000e with win98 and it runs the > >3d really well. Had some issues with power management and our app, as well > >as the laptop just not "waking up" sometimes, so I disabled power > >management. Also had a few JVM crashes. Now that will be a problem if it > >happens to our customer. > >Daniel > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: J. Lee Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:05 AM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Windows 2000 Performance. > >> > >> > >> I sent an email a week ago about running J3D/OpenGL on a Dell Inspiron > >> 5000e running Win2K and a ATI Mobility 128. No probs... required > >> running in 32bit mode. > >> > >> I was quite happy with the performance... > >> > >> -Lee > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Justin Couch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 6:43 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] Windows 2000 Performance. > >> > >> > >> > Bob Gray wrote: > >> > > >> > From > >> > > >> > http://www.j3d.org/faq/video.html#start > >> > >> [snip] > >> > >> > I don't know if this info is up to date.... > >> > >> As far as we are aware, this is the case. nVidia with > >> Detonator3 drivers > >> is the only card that we've received reports of it working > >> under Win2K - > >> even then only in certain colour depths. If other people have > >> different > >> experiences, let us know! > >> > >> -- > >> Justin Couch Author, Java Hacker > >> http://www.vlc.com.au/~justin/ Java 3D FAQ Maintainer > >> http://www.j3d.org/ J3D.org The Java 3D Community Site > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> "Humanism is dead. Animals think, feel; so do machines now. > >> Neither man nor woman is the measure of all things. Every organism > >> processes data according to its domain, its environment; you, with > >> all your brains, would be useless in a mouse's universe..." > >> - Greg Bear, Slant > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> ============================================================== > >> ========== > >> === > >> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the > >> body > >> of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, > >> send email > >> to > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > >> > >> ============================================================== > >> ============= > >> To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > >> include in the body > >> of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, > >> send email to > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > >> > > > >=========================================================================== > >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > >of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > > =========================================================================== > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
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