Appian Traveler?

Surprisingly, yes.

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Yes there are, i even made a thread about them some months ago 😀

Yes but the output goes to a secondary monitor. I won't feed back into a laptop's primary screen.

and the only 3d card that could drive on the laptop screen is probably a PowerVR PCX2 through a docking station with a PCI slot, and that's gonna be slow. 😀

if it can do more than 8MB/s then it's gonna be faster than my crapboard gpu

I've learned early on that the most important component of a laptop is not the CPU, and it's not the memory or the HDD either. It's the video card. The system that taught me that is a Thinkpad 570e with a P2-366 (which is good enough for w98), 128MB PC-100 RAM (which is good enough for w98), 12GB HDD (which is good enough for w98) and the crappiest video chipset known to mankind, NeoMagic MagicMedia256AV - which is NOT good enough for w98. I mean, even the 2d performance is more than ridiculous. It takes a full 2 minutes to refresh the desktop. As for 3d, forget it. It's supposedly DX7-capable, but unless you enjoy games at 0.05fps don't even try.

Since then, the first and foremost spec I look at when buying a laptop is the video chipset. I choose one that is good enough for what I want to do with it for at least 3-4 years in the future. CPU, RAM and storage can be upgraded, but the video card usually not (unless it's a MXM card, but the laptops with those are rare; I have one 😀)

Decent laptop video wasn't until the Mobility Radeon 9000. After that point, it's more of a game of "avoid the vague video capability/Intel video"

Kahenraz wrote:

Yes but the output goes to a secondary monitor. I won't feed back into a laptop's primary screen.

Well, if you're using a laptop old enough to benefit from a PCMCIA graphics card, it's possible its primary screen isn't very good either, a passive LCD for example...

On my case, the screen is actually good (active TFT I belive) the only draw side is the gpu itself,for some special games it limit the fps to 21.
The weirdest example is doom itself, playing vanilla doom gave me 21fps, but using the mbf port the fps went to near 50fps (weird note, vanilla doom could change the background border from the screen where wasnt being rendered, while mbf doesnt that

Games that rely on the monitor to sync will be slower on laptop screens. Cybersphere is an example of one such game