On 09/19/2010 03:49 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>On 9/18/10 8:43 AM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
>> I have to buy a second hand laptop and I have to choose between two
>> Dell laptops!
>> They are almost the same the only big difference is the video card:
>> one has Nvidia 8600M GT 512MB and the
On 9/19/10 6:32 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
>
> In my experience, with the newer chipsets the proprietary drivers are
> probably needed for both manufacturers. But for older chipsets, I would
> prefer having an ATI with FOSS drivers. And remember, all chipsets will
> be old someday.
>
That my friend is
On Sunday 19 September 2010 04:41 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> How about 2D performance for something like OpenOffice.org? Would it
> still be better to get the ATI chipset vice the nVidia one or is it
> neutral at that point?
>
I use an nVIDIA Quadro with Ubuntu Lucid at work and the Radeon HD a
On 9/19/10 4:30 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Sunday 19 September 2010 03:49 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
>> Get the laptop with the nVidia card. Their drivers are much better than
>> AMDs (Catalyst 10.7 broke a bunch of things.)
>>
> That is assuming the OP wants to use proprietary drivers.
True. Ho
On Sunday 19 September 2010 03:49 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> Get the laptop with the nVidia card. Their drivers are much better than
> AMDs (Catalyst 10.7 broke a bunch of things.)
>
That is assuming the OP wants to use proprietary drivers.
As far as I see, the OP's options include relatively o
On 9/18/10 8:43 AM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
> I have to buy a second hand laptop and I have to choose between two
> Dell laptops!
> They are almost the same the only big difference is the video card:
> one has Nvidia 8600M GT 512MB and the other has a Radeon
> ATI HD3650 256 MB.
> My goal is
On 09/18/2010 11:50 AM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
> Thank Bruno for the tip!
> Unfortunately I can try un usb stick on them!
> I can rely only on the experience of this list. :)
If your bios supports booting off of external media
like usb storage, or firewire storage or even external
sata storag
Thank Bruno for the tip!
Unfortunately I can try un usb stick on them!
I can rely only on the experience of this list. :)
2010/9/18 Bruno Wolff III :
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 17:43:35 +0200,
> Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
>> I have to buy a second hand laptop and I have to choose between two
>>
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 17:43:35 +0200,
Alessandro Boggiano wrote:
> I have to buy a second hand laptop and I have to choose between two
> Dell laptops!
> They are almost the same the only big difference is the video card:
> one has Nvidia 8600M GT 512MB and the other has a Radeon
> ATI HD3650
I have to buy a second hand laptop and I have to choose between two
Dell laptops!
They are almost the same the only big difference is the video card:
one has Nvidia 8600M GT 512MB and the other has a Radeon
ATI HD3650 256 MB.
My goal is soft video editing and normal use (web, office...) and of
cou
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