[thelist] What Hex Do *You* Get?

[Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns]

At 05:38 PM 1/4/2003, you typed:
>you'll be unpleasantly surprised to find that most video
>cards on the market now don't offer 24 bit as an option.  as to the
>specifics of my video card, i'm on a dell latitude laptop running NVidia
>GeForce4 440 Go.  another machine here is running an ati card that also
>doesn't offer 24 bit.  if i had to wager a guess, i'd say that's because 32
>bit is really 24 bit with an 8 bit alpha channel, hence no real need to have
>both 24 bit and 32 bit options since the 32 bit is the same with an added
>bonus.
>
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> > Seriously, that's unique - can't say I've seen anything
> > like that since 24 bit capable video hardware went on
> > the market.  (Is this on a rig built for gaming?)
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>
>nope, just your typical laptop being used as a workstation.

My Dell Precision workstation and Dell Inspiron laptop both have 256-color,
16-bit or 32-bit options with a wide range of resolutions, but no 24-bit
options... for reasons discussed within this thread. My workstation has an
NVidia GeForce2 GTS/GeForce 2 Pro, and my laptop has an Ati Mobility
Radeon. FWIW, both are factory installed and are less than a year old.

At any rate, it's an interesting discussion and good review about all the
bits and their variations. ;-)

Warmly,
Shirley
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