So this guy walks in my room and asks where he can buy a 3d accelerator...

[M00T]

so I says to him: "which one do you want?"

- "one for a laptop. I bought Rouge Spear and it says I need a 3d accelerator."

me: "Yer stuck with what you have... can't add a 3d accelerator to a laptop"

- "whatever... what about those new laptops with with dvd's... they have 3d acceleration"

at this point i gave up... no point in trying to teach an idiot. My hypothesy is that he thought dvd acceleration as in "hardware decoding" was the same as 3d acceleration. Funny thing is, he thinks he won the arguement and now he's the more intelligent one. Oh boy, I guess I didn't join the marines to find intellectual companionship.

 

[Napalm381]

Silly, silly people...just let him believe it. The employees at Best Buy will find it amusing I'm sure.

 

[Warrenton]

You can add a 3d accelerator... there are software openGL renderers for games. So what if they are rediculously slow.

 

[Viper GTS]

I recently purchased an external 3D accelerator for my laptop. It's very easy to use, connects to the USB port, & gives me infinite frame rates in Rogue Spear, Q3, & Half-Life. I now play all my games at 1600x1200x64 bit color. (Yes, it also doubles as a resolution upgrade for your LCD panel.)



Viper GTS

 

[ltk007]

hahaha, who looks like the idiot now M00T

 

[AMDJunkie]

Why did you go to the Marines? The Air Force is where the techies are.

 

[M00T]

viper is kidding

 

[M00T]

amdjunkie, i'd rather not discuss that. It'd take too long, and I'm not sure I know the complete answer myself.

 

[Warrenton]

If he really wants a 3d accelerator, he can get a new laptop.

 

[AMDJunkie]

Eh, it's just a joke. They at least give you an abacus in the Marines, right?

 

[M00T]

they give me a lot of crap, does that count?

 

[Viper Frag]

LOL what a dumbass.

 

[AMDJunkie]

I guess it would count, since counting crap is like counting beads on a string, but then Rogue Spear would have terrible framerates.

 

[loogie]

Well, he could get a pci voodoo5500, assuming he had a docking station that had pci slots. Or he could get one of these stick the voodoo in it.

 

[M00T]

we are marines, we can't afford crap like that

 

[Lord Evermore]

Uhm....that Easy Dock thing...it looks like a full computer that connects to your laptop over a PC Card connection...integrated IDE, USB, serial, parallel, PS/2...pretty much looks like just software allows the data to be transferred to the laptop from the 'Dock' over the PC Card connection. So for only 600 dollars, you get a whole new computer but without a keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, CDROM, video, modem, Ethernet or choice of OS...so, you get a case and processor and memory and motherboard for 600 dollars, plus the PC card connection device.