Am Montag, 13. August 2007 schrieb david: > Hein Zelle wrote: > > Marc-Olivier Barre wrote: > >> Intel is the only graphic card manufacturer that I know of that > >> provide full specs of there card so devs can actually develop a _real_ > >> driver, without spending years to reverse engineer stuff. The > >> consequence is simple : intel cards run better than huge nvidia or ati > >> cards. They are also lower profile and much cheaper. > > I fully agree with supporting manufacturers that provide information > > for free drivers, so go ahead and buy intel if you can. However, I'm > > not sure I agree with the "run better" part - in my experience the > > nvidia drivers do generally function very well, especially when going > > to 3D applications. The disadvantages become apparent when you have > > to recompile your video driver every time the kernel changes. > > A more important question though: are intel video > > cards even sold separately? All I've seen sofar is on-board intel video > > chipsets. If a separate card card exists, please post a model number > > so I can look for it in future purchases. > Yes, please, my laptop has onboard Intel video and it steals 64MB of > system memory that I'd rather be using for other things. Your laptop can be expanded with a pci-/agp-card? I have the very strong feeling that you are fixed on your graphics device as I have never seen a laptop that could make use of an extra video card. Except with a docking station that has a pci-slot... You should get more RAM for your laptop so the 64MB of the graphics don't make a high percentage. Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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