On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:13:57 -0700 Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/03/2011 10:46 AM, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > > Johan Scheepers wrote: > > > >> Looking around to buy a new laptop. > > > > I like Intel. > > > > That's what I have on the laptop I'm using right now. It has the > advantage that you don't have to worry about binary blob drivers, like > you do with ATI and nVidida. Well to be fair (and I have an Intel work hat) a lot of the ATI stuff is now well supported without binary blobs. Also on the Intel side one or two chips generally meant for tablets/small devices are basically not useful in Linux as the graphics on the chip is non Intel, notably GMA500 (Poulsbo), GMA600, 'Oaktrail'. The staging driver provides 2D mode setting for these but thats all, and most of those don't even have 2D acceleration. These turn up in the odd netbook so for netbook form factor its worth checking what you get before buying. The "normal" Intel graphics based hardware found in laptops and desktops should work wonderfully, although you'll need a pretty current distribution for the very latest chipsets. Alan -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
