Good day,
Looking around to buy a new laptop.
Now I see some conflicting opinions on the lists between Nvidia and ATI.
Will be using Fedora and Ubuntu latest versions.
Now I am confused.
Kindly some advice please. Thanks. Johan S
On 07/03/2011 02:49 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
Good day,
Looking around to buy a new laptop.
Now I see some conflicting opinions on the lists between Nvidia and ATI.
Will be using Fedora and Ubuntu latest versions.
Now I am confused.
Kindly some advice please. Thanks. Johan S
There are other options too - I have an Intel 4500HD chip in my machine (HP ProBook 4510s), which works very nicely. It might not deliver if you want to run games, but since you were looking for something on budget, it works just fine.
On 07/03/2011 10:46 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Looking around to buy a new laptop.
I like Intel.
That's what I have on the laptop I'm using right now. It has the advantage that you don't have to worry about binary blob drivers, like you do with ATI and nVidida.
On 04/07/11 04:13, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/03/2011 10:46 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Looking around to buy a new laptop.
I like Intel.
That's what I have on the laptop I'm using right now. It has the advantage that you don't have to worry about binary blob drivers, like you do with ATI and nVidida.
My daughters both use Dell laptops with ubuntu11.04 / nvidia and have great results One does fairly intensive Blender 3D with her students Roger
On 07/03/2011 06:27 PM, Roger wrote:
My daughters both use Dell laptops with ubuntu11.04 / nvidia and have great results One does fairly intensive Blender 3D with her students Roger
Ubuntu installs the proprietary drivers for you and takes care of reinstalling them every time the kernel's updated. Fedora doesn't. With nVidia, either you go the kmod/akmod route or try to remember to reinstall the drivers yourself. Having OSS drivers that actually work is a case of KISS.
On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:13:57 -0700 Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 07/03/2011 10:46 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Looking around to buy a new laptop.
I like Intel.
That's what I have on the laptop I'm using right now. It has the advantage that you don't have to worry about binary blob drivers, like you do with ATI and nVidida.
Well to be fair (and I have an Intel work hat) a lot of the ATI stuff is now well supported without binary blobs.
Also on the Intel side one or two chips generally meant for tablets/small devices are basically not useful in Linux as the graphics on the chip is non Intel, notably GMA500 (Poulsbo), GMA600, 'Oaktrail'. The staging driver provides 2D mode setting for these but thats all, and most of those don't even have 2D acceleration. These turn up in the odd netbook so for netbook form factor its worth checking what you get before buying.
The "normal" Intel graphics based hardware found in laptops and desktops should work wonderfully, although you'll need a pretty current distribution for the very latest chipsets.
Alan
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