Re: FN-FORUM: Google Earth

date posted 14th July 2005 20:50

On 14 Jul 2005 20:08:24 -0000, Andy Macnaughton-Jones [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote=
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> I tried it on my low-end dell laptop. No 3d card or anything. Works
> quite happily.

Define "low-end". The specs are there...

# CPU speed: Intel(r) Pentium(r) PIII 500 MHz
# System memory (RAM): 128MB
# 200MB hard-disk space
# 3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 16MB VRAM
# 1024x768, 32-bit true color screen
# Network speed: 128 kbps ("Broadband/Cable Internet")

... but not /that/ onerous. Now *my* lowest-end laptop is an IBM
Thinkpad "Butterfly", the folding keyboard that's immortalised in the
Smithsonian. 75MHz 486, 40MB RAM, 4GB. That is low-end!

Any laptop from the past 2-3y will probably meet Dell's spec, though.
Matrox is about the only company making NON-3D cards now, but they are
the best multihead cards around, no contest.

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