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/ ThinkPad Revisited
In your March review of IBM's ThinkPad 760CD, you noted that its graphics performance was considerably worse than a typical 90-MHz desktop at 600 by 800 resolution and with 8-bit color. When the 760CD is put into 8-bit mode, however, the "ThinkPad Features" program indicates that graphics acceleration as well as MPEG is disabled; they
can be enabled only in 16-bit mode. It would be interesting if you could rerun your test in 16-bit mode. It may be that the ThinkPad is actually faster in that mode.
Henry Kautz
AT&T Research,
While our published benchmark tests were done using 8-bit color, because that's what we had available to compare against, I used the machine primarily in 16-bit color mode for some time afterward. And, su
bjectively at least, it was not detectably faster in that mode. I also did a few runs of our scripted performance tests using 16-bit color and didn't observe any speedup at all. --Russell Kay, technical editor
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