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    Zepto DX 10 - real or not?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by cobalic, Apr 30, 2007.

  1. cobalic

    cobalic Notebook Evangelist

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    Check this out:

    http://www.laptopical.com/znote-6625wd.html

    Real? I seriously doubt it's gonna cost $1200, that's probably the barebone price or something.

    Anyways, would a dx10 card like the go8800 still be able to play dx 9 decently? I heard there was some issue with backwards compatibility.
     
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    It'll run DX9 even better.
     
    JamesMorris, Apr 30, 2007
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    The "problems with backwards compatibility" are with DirectX 10 itself, not with the hardware that supports it.

    It's quite simply that unlike earlier DirectX versions, 10 is not backwards compatible. If you have DirectX 9 installed, you can play any game that use any version of DirectX from 1 to 9.
    DirectX 10 can only play DirectX 10 games.

    So for that reason, Vista comes with both installed. You have a version of DX9.0 to handle all the existing games, and then you have DX10 to run all the upcoming ones.

    So it's not really a "problem", just a design choice so they could slim down DX10 a bit by not having to support all the old junk.

    But graphics cards have no problem with backwards compatibility. A card that supports DX10 also supports DX9, just like it supports OpenGL. All it takes is for the driver to be able to translate the calls from DX9/10/OpenGL/whatever, into the card's internal code format. So nothing has really changed there. A card that supports DX10 certainly has all the features required to support DX9 as well.
     
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  4. zadillo

    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    The exact quote there is "I expect to be offering from 1100-1200 USD onwards"...... as you surmised, that's the base price. With the actual DX10 discreet DPU, etc. it's probably going to be more.
     
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    Even the base configuration will have the go8600. But I it will be with the slow CPU, 512MB Ram (maybe 256), 60GB HDD and no windows. The model with the go7600 has a starting price off under 800€ so 1200$ is already a pretty big price increase.
     
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    Interesting, that makes sense. It seems kind of pointless to go with the base config though (what's the point of a geforce 8600 with such a slow CPU, so little RAM, such a small HD, and no OS).
     
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  7. cobalic

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    So whats the expected price range for a dx 10 lappy...$3k+?
     
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    The price ranges shouldn't be that different from what we see now; the GeForce 8xxx series (and ATI's DX10 parts) have similar equivalents to the current GPU's like the GeForce 7200/7300/7400/7600/7700/7900GS/7950GTX).

    You should be able to find similar prices depending on the class of DX10 card.
     
    zadillo, Apr 30, 2007
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