dear karanbir, always refreshing and stimulating to hear from the bleeding-edge from you. [snip] > > do you want linux preinstalled for hardware compatibility check or to not > pay the MS tax ? in case its the latter, you might be able to get a refund, > or just not pay for it upfront. Vendor dependant. >
am through with the 'anti-ms' emotion long ago. don't care about them anymore. am only interested in 100% linux hardware compatibility on my gear. thus, looking for a high-end laptop that comes pre-installed with gnu/linux with all the bits at 100% compatibility. i am currently not aware of the level of compatibility with 3d graphics-card (ati/nvidia) and sound-cards or usb-based sound-devices. >> to get a laptop that handles extreme crunching of pixels, stores >> bucketloads of them, speed-demons through multi-track live recording, >> and all this using, say, ubuntustudio, would be thrilling. > > humm... perhaps. But most people find it more convenient to have a 'parked' > crunching setup, and only use the laptop as a front end. Since traditional > hardware formats are much more 'upgrade' friendly and always a couple of > steps ahead of the laptop curve ( eg, 4 GB ram in a desktop machine, with 4 > cores is now 'baseline', where as baseline laptops are nowhere near ), it > means longer life and higher return on investment with that. will obviously get a monster custom-assembled desktop/workstation for myself. that has always been my policy since circa 1985. by choosing not to compromise on desktops, whether macs or more recently assembled-pcs, i always tend to get much-better returns on my hardware and longer product-life too. > >> one of the most common problems with most commodity hardware is with >> digitizing audio. the internal circuitry may generate 'noise' as >> people don't really care about shielding and isolation. >> getting 3d graphics cards to natively work a 100% with >> full-functionality under linux is another unix|pipe dream. > > I might have agreed with you on this a few years back, but given that most > large scale studios are now either completely linux based, or moving to be > linux based - I'd think atleast someone has solved these issues. > okay, now this statement has tugged my goat with glee! have been experimenting with linux-based audio for almost five years. do agree it has become studio-ready since perhaps a year and a half. the adoption of linux-based studios, in my experience, in india is a nice, big, zero. most studios and setups are on pcs, and a cult-tribe on macs. kishore bhargava did mention once, that one of his friends runs a complete setup on linux, but on pressing on never got further details from here. you paint the opposite picture. i would quite appreciate to know more about such studios. would you have urls, pointers, or even contact-info. would love to get in touch with them. am also quite convinced linux will soon capture this vertical market completely, unlike with foss-based video and animation, and with professional graphic-design. yes, i know linux has been ruling the roost in hollywood animation and the film-industry since several years, but with proprietary packaged software, and especially with custom-code that never sees the light of day outside the studios. hence the key operative word 'foss-based' above. regards niyam > -- > Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ > GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
