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- Subject: 32-bit external SVGA comi
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- From: daniel.moran@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us (Daniel Moran)
- Date: 4 Sep 92 03:41:00 GMT
- Reply-To: daniel.moran@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us (Daniel Moran)
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- hellers@wisc.edu (Joe Hellerstein) writes:
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- JH>Does anybody know of any likelihood of laptops/notebooks being
- JH>equipped with serious external video capabilities in the near future
- JH>(e.g. 32-bit SVGA port)? I'm considering buying a notebook and
- JH>treating it like a desktop machine a lot of the time. A friend has
- JH>suggested I wait for local bus technology to hit laptops. Is that a
- JH>pipe dream?
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- Seems unlikely to me, at least soon. There's no technical reason it
- couldn't be done, of course, but I doubt there's any great call for it
- in the marketplace. The principal function of the video circuitry in a
- notebook is, of necessity, driving the LCD/gas plasma/etc. screen. In
- 90+ percent of all cases, I doubt the added functionality necessary to
- drive an external monitor in hicolor or 24-bit color, would prove to be
- cost efficient. There may be a niche marketplace for such things, but I
- suspect you're going to wait a while for people to get around to filling
- it.
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- Lunchbox designs are a different matter. Wouldn't surprise me to see,
- for example, Dolch come out with a local bus video some time soon.
- But that's a very different market than the notebook stuff, and you'll
- pay through the nose for it.
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