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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Harald Milz wrote: > The tech specs are on > http://www.us.pc.ibm.com/products/thinkpad/5aea_11da.html The max color depth still doesn't seem to mean much. The table lists.. Display & Resolution E: 12.1" SVGA TFT - 256K colors @ 800x600 11.3" SVGA DSTN - 64K colors @ 800x600 Other models: 11.3" SVGA DSTN - 256 colors @ 800x600 12.1" SVGA TFT - 64K colors @ 800 x 600 Since 256 color VGA is actually 256 colors out of a palette of 256K colors I highly doubt the panel is only good for 256 colors. Which 256 colors would that be? 3 bits each for 2 colors, and two bits for whatever color is left? Only 8 or fewer levels for any given color would be woefully inadequate. Usually a panel is good for at least 12-bit color to give you something near the full range of colors available in basic 256 color [256 specific colors selected out of 18-bit palette]. If it didn't LCD panels would look horrible with fairly colorful images. The TP701 users ended up getting a lot more colors available that were officially supported. With the dull display of DSTN panels I wouldn't expect awesome color fidelity, but having over 256 colors on screen at once does wonders for the color palette management in lots of software. Instead of just having the foreground app control the palette [minus a few colors reserved by the OS] the apps can use a large palette and not fight for what few colors are there. Even if the LCD end up butchering it down to the nearest 4K colors [4 bits for each color] or whatever it is still much better than living with 256 colors at once. ============================================================================ ==== Steve Parker ==== San Luis Obispo, CA ==== Multi-OS & Multitasking ==== ============================================================================