> > Thanks Matt, thats really good to know. I would much prefer > a place where I can walk in and run a knoppix CDROM to test > a machine. Dell makes this a little hard :-).
There is a Dell stand in the Bondi Junction Westfield in front of JB Hifi or the floor above/below it... they might let you reboot a laptop with Knoppix. > > Complete specs on the net. But note there's a few variations. e.g. > > mine has ATI Radeon x600, but some have Intel video card. > > Once thing I fogot to mention is that I'd quite like to get > some decent accelerated 3D graphics as well. Is hardware > acceleration available on any of these machines? The Intel cards although not breaking any land speed records are accelerated using open source drivers from Tungsten Graphics and Intel, the new Radeon X300/x600 type cards have closed source fglrx drivers from ATI (mostly correct rendering, not always stable) or open source drivers (reverse engineered, can play quake 3,not always stable but getting better), I bought an Insprion 6000 a while back and it had an x300 and I had to go write the PCIe support for the cards myself, but I've committed it all to X/kernel now so nobody else should need to feel that pain.. Dave. -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
