On 21 Feb 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I would personally never accept any machine with an ati video chip in it > until some day when ati writes working drivers. It would be a very bad > exchange to make. it was one of the few requirements when we got my > wifes laptop. The video had to be nvidia, and the cpu had to be an > athlon 64.
I couldn't agree more. The nvidia driver has been stable for me for years now and I was happy to see this trend continue with x86-64. I just replaced one ATI X850XT PE with a 7800GS for exactly this reason. I was still having to use hexedit for crying out loud to modify the ATI drivers so they would recognize my non-ATI branded X850!? I mean, it wasn't terribly difficult, but come on, that's a couple of seconds to fix on their end and it persisted across several driver releases in spite of it being reported as a bug to the developers. Whatever, I'm more curious which laptop you found with an Athlon64 and an nvidia chipset/video chip!? I've been looking around for such a thing and it seems all I can find are Turion's with ATI chipsets. -- Mark Nipper e-contacts: 832 Tanglewood Drive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bryan, Texas 77802-4013 http://nipsy.bitgnome.net/ (979)575-3193 AIM/Yahoo: texasnipsy ICQ: 66971617 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GG/IT d- s++:+ a- C++$ UBL++++$ P--->+++ L+++$ !E--- W++(--) N+ o K++ w(---) O++ M V(--) PS+++(+) PE(--) Y+ PGP t+ 5 X R tv b+++@ DI+(++) D+ G e h r++ y+(**) ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ---begin random quote of the moment--- "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." -- Mark Twain ----end random quote of the moment---- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]