Hi, I need to get a new notebook in the near future, and want an AMD Turion. At the moment I am trying to narrow down the search, I found some reasonably priced Asus, MSI and HP models.
Some models come with Nvidia cards, some with ATI. On linux forums I was told that I should avoid ATI because their attitude about Linux support (especially for 64bit). Is Nvidia better in this respect? Should I prefer one over the other? I am not doing any gaming, but sometimes rely on OpenGL for data visualization. Another thing I am concerned about is sleep (suspend to RAM). Some Turion notebooks are pretty new and not all of them have a writeup at tuxmobil/linux-laptop.net, so I don't know if sleep works. How can one tell that by the specifications? Which component does sleep support depend on, the BIOS, the chipset, the graphics card? Anything to watch out for --- are there sleep problems with Nvidia/ATI? Thank you, Tamas PS.: I would also appreciate advice if people have a particular Turion notebook to recommend (WXGA, DVD RW). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
