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- From: jmunkki@vipunen.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
- Subject: Re: Duo & powrbooks
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.172419.6512@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
- References: <LREITER.92Dec20021922@jade.tufts.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:24:19 GMT
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- In article <LREITER.92Dec20021922@jade.tufts.edu> lreiter@jade.tufts.edu (Lowell B. Reiter) writes:
- >Does anybody know if they might in Feb. Come out with a 256 gray
- >powerbook or duo? Might they even come out with color? Wight the
- >screens become active matrix?
-
- Probably not. Apple could only squeeze out 8 shades of gray from the
- active matrix display (the other 7 are faked and one of the 16 doesn't
- exist at all), so I doubt that they could get 256.
-
- On the other hand, 16 shades of gray is already quite nice, although
- you can't play certain popular games with just 16. Those popular games
- usually also require a palette/CLUT based video card and Apple chose to
- make the PowerBooks fixed palette devices (this means that you can't
- use palette animation on the PowerBooks).
-
- --
- Juri Munkki Windsurf: fast sailing
- jmunkki@hut.fi Macintosh: fast software
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