[ilugd] [OT] Looking for a laptop

2008-10-06 Thread shirish
Dear lazyweb, Looking for a laptop. Configuration :- Chip and Graphics chip :- AMD-ATI (5/6/7) 00 card Memory :- 2 GB DDR2 (upgradable upto 4 GB) Gigabit ethernet port Wireless :- Atheros 6k-9k chipset Budget :- Between 30-50,000 INR (inclusive of all) I looked up the Dell Vostro

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for a laptop

2008-10-06 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1:11 PM, shirish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear lazyweb, Looking for a laptop. Configuration :- Chip and Graphics chip :- AMD-ATI (5/6/7) 00 card Memory :- 2 GB DDR2 (upgradable upto 4 GB) Gigabit ethernet port Wireless :- Atheros 6k-9k chipset Budget :-

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for a laptop

2008-10-06 Thread Nalin Savara
Shirish wrote: Dear lazyweb, Looking for a laptop. Configuration :- Chip and Graphics chip :- AMD-ATI (5/6/7) 00 card Memory :- 2 GB DDR2 (upgradable upto 4 GB) Gigabit ethernet port Wireless :- Atheros 6k-9k chipset Budget :- Between 30-50,000 INR (inclusive of all) Hi Al l@

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for a laptop

2008-10-06 Thread Atanu Datta
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 16:32 +0530, Nalin Savara wrote: Shirish wrote: Dear lazyweb, Looking for a laptop. Configuration :- Chip and Graphics chip :- AMD-ATI (5/6/7) 00 card Memory :- 2 GB DDR2 (upgradable upto 4 GB) Gigabit ethernet port Wireless :- Atheros 6k-9k

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for a laptop

2008-10-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 06 Oct 2008, Atanu Datta wrote: [snip] As for the ATI graphics chip, doesn't Nvidia play much better with GNU/Linux and ATI most of the time are troublemakers? If you don't mind using proprietary drivers, some of which have had unfixed root exploits and put your computer at risk

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for a laptop

2008-10-06 Thread Mani A
Atanu Datta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, have seen a few Acer (Linplus) laptops with AMD64, even at places like eZone. As for the ATI graphics chip, doesn't Nvidia play much better with GNU/Linux and ATI most of the time are troublemakers? Nvidia display cards are worser... and even with