color depth of palm pilots?

[Leo Robert Klein]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 David Merchant wrote:

>I read that most laptops have 256 color depth (though one source says 250),
>but I haven't found anything that tells me the average color depth of a
>palm pilot (I'm completely ignorant of those critters.  They use Windows CE
>don't they?).

I can't imagine "most" laptops nowadays have 256 colors (known
affectionately as 8 bit color)--that really harkens back to the pre-Super
VGA age of Windows 3.0.  The Compac Presarios which we bought for student
use here over a year ago--just to take one example--are quite fine with up
to 24 bit color (i.e. millions of colors).

You can tell a computer running 256 colors by the distinctly grainy
appearence of photographic images.  Most Wintel machines still
come--ludricously enough--with 256 colors as the default setting which is
like running a new car at no more than five miles an hour.

LEO



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