> Chris Horler wrote: > >I'm going to buy a laptop very soon (pay day approaches).
You specifically need to decide whether weight is a factor for you: (a) a desk top replacement, will weigh about 8 lb ... a luggable (b) a lightweight powersaver, will weigh about 4 lb ... no gaming I'm using an AMD64 laptop, works fine. It's a desk top replacement and achieves 2 hours battery at full speed, over 3 hours when speed throttled. Bear in mind that, if you have a friend whose laptop takes the same model of battery, you can double the available uptime when travelling by borrowing the second battery from each other. Don't travel together! You may have trouble buying a battery ... without a laptop included; that's what happened to me. The limit on the number of computers that the manufacturer could sell was the number of batteries available. They'd rather sell full laptops than just the battery, of course. From: "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've never bought a loptop for myself, but when I look, the first thing > I try to figure out is what video subsystem comes with it and how much > video ram. I know I can get GeForce based laptops to run well. I > assume that ATI based laptops also work well, especially with windows. > But if you find some other random video chipset that you've never heard > of before, you might do well to skip it ... at least if you plan to do Try booting the floppy with knoppix, if they'll let you, and then do lspci and lspci -n to get the information for a careful online search. The labels on the front (and in the Windows System Devices list) are often misleading due to marketing factors that create odd names. From: Chris Horler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ATI 9700 M11 128MB ram. > ATI's driver says they support upto the 9600, My laptop has the 9600, can't help you on the support level for 9700. If you visit the ATI discussion boards, you'll find that ATI have been playing marketing name games with the recently released chip designs. Bear in mind that you will only get accelerated 3D when you are (a) running the binary-only fglrx driver from ATI (b) also running the kernel module from ATI (doesn't work with 2.6.7) (c) using both a 32 bit userspace and a 32 bit only kernel The last constraint is only a factor if you have an AMD64 processor and are running linux (since Windows doesn't do 64 bit support yet). _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
