haha, well.. >From what I hear, the new ATi RadeonHD drivers are a vast improvement and not to be taken lightly! It's also worth noting that it seems this would be the only way AMD/ATi could compete with Nvidia in the near future as we all know that ATi drivers where crap and that Nvidia hardware has now surpassed ATi, some time back in 2006 in terms of watts/TFLOP's!!
P.S. I don't think Nvidia is evil ;) Best Regards, Edward. Oh and btw, I ran the Sun Solaris Device Detection Java Tool on that laptop and it comes up as well supported so its prob going to be my choice this week ?? 2008/4/30 Kaiwai Gardiner <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com>: > > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:28 -0700, Edward O'Callaghan wrote: > > -1 for Vaio (avoid them!) > > Many BIOS bugs and ACPI issues etc.. > > > > I'm considering the IBM Lenovo IdeaPad Y510-x00 or the Y710 series. As > > they have a good build Q and good FSB speed with good support, and > > with the ATi RadeonHD driver coming in the next build (88) its well > > worth considering the Y710 series > > > > Review here: > > > http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/01/lenovo_ideapad_y510_y710.html > > > > Y510: > > http://www-07.ibm.com/lenovoinfo/au/ideas/yseries/y510.html > > Y710: > > http://www-07.ibm.com/lenovoinfo/au/ideas/yseries/y710.html > > > > I am told that they are a OEM for Solaris ?? Maybe they will ship it > with Solaris ? > > I was tempted to purchase a laptop with a Radeon HD graphics card, but > given the crap-o-la nature of the driver, I'd sooner stick with the > devil I know (Nvidia) than the one I don't (AMD). > > OEM - I'd say thats only for their servers; IBM same situation, although > there are rumours that IBM maybe pushing their commodity servers out to > Lenovo due to the lack of margins and cut throat competition. > > Matthew > > -- All Documents adhered to the ISO/IEC 26300 standard file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents from this email address. The author does not take responsibility of the recipients inability to read international standards and who use proprietary products such as MS Office. See: http://www.openoffice.org/ Edward O'Callaghan. -- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EdwardOcallaghan http://moonshine.opn4.org/ http://www.pcbsd.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/attachments/20080430/6d691206/attachment.html>
