From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Maarten van Dantzich
[maartenv@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:36 PM
To: '3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu'
Subject: acceleration hardware in laptops


Is anyone on the list actively tracking the state of the art in laptop 3D
acceleration? 

In order to make our demos somewhat portable, we've long wanted a laptop
with a decent chipset in it, but I haven't recently looked to see which
chipset makers (NVidia/ATI/...) have a decent mobile version, and what
products actually use them. We last looked about 6 months ago, I believe at
an ATI chipset, and found it too weak, at least in Direct3D support. (bad Z
buffer precision, if I recall correctly, as well as other problems.)

I'd be interested to hear experiences from others. 

thanks,

>> Maarten.