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Toshiba M700 Tablet PC - 3D Modeling

- Matt Faulkner

Last night I was working on my X61 doing some work and decided to move over to the M700 to give it a try. This is just a really quick demo of using the M700 to do some 3D GIS work. In the demo, I take a raster image with elevations, convert it to a 3D set of triangles (I call them polygons in the video), open up the 3D display and overlay some aerial photos.

This will show you a couple of things - the speed of the processors making almost 400,000 triangles from elevation data and the ability for the M700 to display and process the 3D rotation and display.

It really did a nice job - I am comparing it to my x61 (not totally fair I know processor wise) and it is a LOT faster for this type of work. I use my x61 every day for this exact type of work, but now I am really wanting this M700 after last night... wonder how bad I'll want this by the end of the week!! Maybe I'll just keep it :)

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:16:30 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Yes, but can it play Doom? :-)

How hard does the graphics card work on this Matt, or is it mainly the processor doing the number crunching?

Gavin Miller

Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:58:35 PM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

That screen shot brings back memories. I worked quite a bit with ESRI Arc products at my old job. We started with ArcView, but I helped lead the way in transitioning to the ArcGIS era. I had to travel around the country teaching our branches how to build their own DTED database. Thanks for screen shot. I've found the hardest thing about bring new technology into the workplace is just convincing people to give it a try. Once they try it, they love it, but people resist change. Even positive change.

Brandon

Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:57:11 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

If anybody from Toshiba UK is reading can you please allow us a choice of more than two models, both of which are lowish spec - I have tried calling and got nowhere with the person that I spoke to and you have no email or forum that I can find

The USP of this tablet is that it is great for "Power Users" - why offer only 2Ghz processors ?

I was waiting for a Dell but have been disappointed with that - I am ready to buy if you would only let me !

Sean

sean cull

Friday, February 01, 2008 1:49:43 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

Sean, good comment, I just sent the same to a business acquaintance at a Toshiba UK service centre. There's also the price issue, I want to compare the UK 3G model with the US equivalent because I will probably try to get mine in the US in April when I pass through en route from an assignment in Central America. I see for the Uk we have to do our own "downsizing" to XP.

Roger J

Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:37:33 AM (Mountain Standard Time, UTC-07:00)

You should test the graphics status through System Requirements Lab's website - http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srl .

This is where gamers test their computers to see if they meet the min or max requirements to play some of the top games. It even lets you know if there is an update for your graphics and video card.

Diffently worth checking out, and than if you can post a screen shot of what it says about it.

David Martinez

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