On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:56:48 -0400, Dan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:27:17 -0400, Dan wrote: >> >>> I would like to buy a Vaio S. It has the user-switchable graphics card >>> AMD Radeon 6470M. >> >> Then take a look into this Ubuntu forum thread (post #11) where a user >> talks about the status of that card in his distribution: >> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=467b83bbff9b48f6a32dc2c2d06bf452&t=1699832&page=2
(...) > Thanks for your answer. That post is from April and things may have > changed but it seems that it is not a great idea to buy a laptop with a > switchable graphics card, they are not well supported right now. I was > debating between the Vaio S and the Macbook pro. The Macbook uses an > integrated intel card which should work better with Linux. Uff... I would avoid a Mac at all. Better a compatible system than irons from a "closed-minded" company :-) But I would reconsider a dual VGA based laptop, mainly because of two points: 1/ They're still fairly new in the linux scope. 2/ I see no point of having a dual VGA card at all. A good power management routine provided by the card's driver that reduces the watts consumption of the card when it is required should be enough, I don't see why the need of using two different graphic chipsets and what is worst, they can be only controlled by "undetermined" (i.e., not open) tools, so I prefer to stick to something that I know how it behaves. > Has anybody a good experience with switchable graphic cards? I can't tell for this, sorry ;-( Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.13.10.43...@gmail.com
