Re: laptop shopping

ray wrote:
On Sun, 25 May 2008 18:34:31 -0500, Chris Cox wrote:

Time Waster wrote:
...
I don't need a flame fest about Sony's and Dells and HPs necessarily,
though maybe that would be fun too. (I can read Amazon for those,
though.) Are the sales critters pretty much full of it as I would
expect?
Well I always keep the original drive around and replace it with one of
my own for Linux (just in case). I've been using Dell laptops for about
4 years now... they never have given me grief about Linux, in fact most
of their techs know exactly what it is... but again, they farm that
out... so YMMV.

I have owned a D600, M70, M90, D630 of the Dell line. I recommend using
an Nvidia GPU and an Intel wireless, though you can make the Dell
wireless work with ndiswrapper.

Six months ago I would have agreed. Now, I think the Intel video driver is sufficiently advanced that, give a choice, I'd go that way.

Yes and no. There are some great advancements in Xorg that were
placed there by Intel specifically for Intel. One might argue
that Intel now controls Xorg, but I won't go that far. However,
even so, there are bugs with the Intel drive (yes, there are),
and of course, Intel knows diddly about accelerated 3d currently,
so it's a lackluster performer at best.

But if you don't need the horsepower, it may be a good choice.
Time will tell if Intel will continue its dominance at Xorg
and fixes the various issues or not.
.

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