I'm starting from 8 bits. Why should he have 10? That is still a rarity today
First of all, 32 bits have been outdated for a long time.
Second, the laptop uses 16GB RAM - with 32 bits you could only have a maximum of 4GB.
So of course the laptop has 64 bits.
8 bit systems are indeed a rarity these days. These things have not been around for a while (apart from various microcontrollers) …
Even in DOS times, almost 40 years ago, 16 bits were common…
However, 10 bit systems would actually be even rarer, because they were never built (except for occasional hobbyists).
I got the question wrong. I referred to the monitor as the displayable color space
Even then, 8 bits would be very ancient. (Or do you mean 8 bits per channel, so all together 24 bits per pixel for RGB?)
No I mean the 8 bit displays can c.a. Show 16 million colors. The new 10 bit displays more than 1 trillion
Nothing "Ne"…
16 million (or more precisely: 16,777,216) colors are 8 bits per channel, i.e. 24 bits for three channels.
With 10 bits per channel, that is 30 bits for three channels, there are 1,073,741,824 so "only" a little more than a billion (you have probably confused the English "trillion" with the German "trillion").
No I mean the 8 bit displays can c.a. Show 16 million colors.
Where did you get that from? Calculate 2 ^ 8. That's 256 colors - that's the color set that was used at Super Mario at the time.