Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)

2004-02-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 12:34 am, frankieh wrote: ->Nforce is an AMD chipset.. -> ->Last time I checked, dell did not sell any AMD systems at all... -> ->I have a Dell 5150, and I have the nvidia driver working fine on mdk9.2 ->for its 64mb Geforce FX5200. ->I have sound, I have wireless, in f

Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)

2004-02-09 Thread frankieh
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 09 February 2004 09:51 am, Alastair Scott wrote: ->To be honest, there is little difference in performance and features. ->What might swing it is the driver support which, in my experience, is ->(in descending order of quality): -> ->NVIDIA ->ATI ->Intel -> ->Alast

Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)

2004-02-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 09 February 2004 09:51 am, Alastair Scott wrote: ->To be honest, there is little difference in performance and features. ->What might swing it is the driver support which, in my experience, is ->(in descending order of quality): -> ->NVIDIA ->ATI ->Intel -> ->Alastair Thanks for the rep

Re: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)

2004-02-09 Thread Allen
You might also want to check out a site called linuxonlaptops.com or something like that. I'm not sure about the exact email address as I don't have a laptop sadly. But I would love to get one to load Linux on. I write tutorials for installing Linux to help out. I can't program so I cant write

RE: [newbie] Laptop/notebook question(S)

2004-02-09 Thread Alastair Scott
Ronald wrote: > I've been looking at some laptop/notebook stuff, and was just > wondering about Dells stuff. My wife says we can swing one > around tax time . > > Does it work pretty good with Mandrake? I have never had problems with _older_ Dell machines (Latitudes and Inspirons) and Mandra