- Which laps have 64meg 3d?
- Posted by steve on July 4th, 2003
Non-shared mem.
There doesn't seem to be many of them. Acer tm800, t40-1.6, 5205, 1955.
And there's all pretty expensive except perhaps the Tm800.
Does anyone know any upcoming models with a good 64 meg 3D card?
- Posted by Musashi on July 4th, 2003
Dell 8500
On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:16:37 +0800, "steve" <nospam@iinet.net.au>
wrote:
- Posted by narcisiss on July 4th, 2003
Acer aspire 1600 serie
- Posted by Farinata on July 4th, 2003
"steve" <nospam@iinet.net.au> wrote in news:3f04ffab$0$23104$5a62ac22
@freenews.iinet.net.au:
If you're going to get a card with 64MB make sure it's not a GeForce4 Go. I
have a GeForce4 4200 Go and... nVidia does not support it with drivers. Get
an ATi based card.
- Posted by Alexei Boukirev on July 4th, 2003
Farinata <farinata@neuk.net> wrote in
news:Xns93AE7B7294EAAfari@66.75.162.198:
ATI officially doe not provide/support drivers for their mobile chips too.
But...
You can get modded drivers on www.driverheaven.net or get on of the
utilities that modify official CATALYST drivers to support mobile chips.
These utilities modify *.inf files in driver set.
So far both methods worked for me.
I hear Omega is no longer providing modded drivers for Nvidia.
All the above does not necessarily make Nvidia mobile chips look bad - you
may be just fine with original/updated drivers from laptop manufacturer.
For example, Dell released revised driver for mobile Nvidia chip about a
week ago.
Alexei
- Posted by Farinata on July 5th, 2003
Alexei Boukirev <aboukirev@blah.ameritech.net> wrote in
news:Xns93AE936C0BA3Aaboukirevblahamerite@206.127. 4.10:
Well, you're right that Omega's released nVidia drivers, but they're the
exact ones from nVidia, just tweaked so it has no support for the GF4
4200 Go. Anyways, nVidia wrote Omega a death threat recently if he didn't
stop making tweaked drivers. Apparently they don't like people making
things run BETTER.
- Posted by G Tom on July 5th, 2003
I thought that nvidia supported ALL of their video card with the
unified driver architechture thingy. They say it's backwards
compatible.
-G
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- Posted by Farinata on July 5th, 2003
xanthinine@yahoo.com (G Tom) wrote in
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Yeah, that's what I thought too, until I read this at the bottom of
nvidia's driver download page:
"NOTE: GeForce2 Go and GeForce4 Go mobile processors are not supported in
this driver. Please contact the notebook's manufacturer for graphics
drivers for your notebook PC."
- Posted by G Tom on July 5th, 2003
Holy weirdness, Batman! You're right!!
Anyone know why they (nV/ATI) don't support mobile processors? It
seems like they're standardized despite the proprietary nature of
laptops (a geforce is a geforce is a geforce, kind of thing).
It should be TECHNICAKKY possible, because the Linux driver they
provide works with mobile processors as well. Great and easy
installation, BTW!
Maybe it's some kind of stupid liscensing thing...
-G
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- Posted by Alexei Boukirev on July 6th, 2003
xanthinine@yahoo.com (G Tom) wrote in
news:b5193c75.0307051425.1a927152@posting.google.c om:
ATI says it's licensing between them and laptop manufacturers. Guess, it
makes ATI's life easier too.
The only example of when such licensing did not take place was with S3
Savage chips in laptops - S3 continued to release 'reference' drivers for
laptop chipsets even after company was gone from this business. Not the
greatest video chipsets, but great support.
Don't know if Trident is different or not.
Alexei
- Posted by Marten on July 11th, 2003
ECS G732 has the Radeon 9000 mobile chipset with 64 Megs DDR built into the
video chipset, no stupid memory sharing. I have one with a P4 2.4GHz, 512
Megs DDR and 40GB HD. It replaced my desktop system and is great.
http://www.ecsusa.com/products/g732.html
Marten
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- Posted by Bingo Boy on July 12th, 2003
"steve" <nospam@iinet.net.au> wrote in message news:<3f04ffab$0$23104$5a62ac22@freenews.iinet.net .au>...
Hi,
The only notebook / laptop that I know of with a 64MB Graphics card
that supports DirectX 9 is the Sony GTR range. These all have the
Nvidia Go5600 chip in them.
99% have desktop processors though. Do you want it as a portable? It's
about 9lbs so it's really just strictly a 'desktop replacement'.
Battery life is just 90mins.
You get alot for $2000 though. 16" Black Oynx Screen with a 1400 by
1000 (or thereabouts
), dual DVD burner, 60GB and 512mb and in the
states they have a TV tuner and TIVO is available on the GTR range
also.
You have $4000 you can get one with a moile processor too. At the
moment though the GRT range is really only starting out with desktop
replacements. I belive the Z2 is due out soon and this will have the
ATI 9600 64MB.
Good luck,
BB
