How many bits?

Ca
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Huhu, how many bits does the laptop have?

https://www.mediamarkt.de/...%7Cp%7C%7C

Au

I'm starting from 8 bits. Why should he have 10? That is still a rarity today

Ro

First of all, 32 bits have been outdated for a long time.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.

Li

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).

Au

I got the question wrong. I referred to the monitor as the displayable color space

Li

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?)

Au

No I mean the 8 bit displays can c.a. Show 16 million colors. The new 10 bit displays more than 1 trillion

Li

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").

Ro

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.