Radeon ATI HD3650 or Nvidia 8600M GT
john wendel
jwendel10 at comcast.net
Mon Sep 20 03:03:47 UTC 2010
On 09/19/2010 03:49 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 9/18/10 8:43 AM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
>> I have to buy a second hand laptop and I have to choose between two
>> Dell laptops!
>> They are almost the same the only big difference is the video card:
>> one has Nvidia 8600M GT 512MB and the other has a Radeon
>> ATI HD3650 256 MB.
>> My goal is soft video editing and normal use (web, office...) and of
>> course all the 3D functions of kde! ;)
>>
> Get the laptop with the nVidia card. Their drivers are much better than
> AMDs (Catalyst 10.7 broke a bunch of things.)
>
> James McKenzie
>
I would agree with one caveat, Nvidia had a bad overheating problem with
certain models of laptop video chips. So bad it would melt the chip
connections. I'd investigate this carefully before I bought any of the
older Nvidia based laptops (like the 8600M). The problem has been fixed
in the latest generation of chips.
Regards,
John
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