On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 15:17 +1000, Edward O'Callaghan wrote: > 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 ;)
He he he, Well, I've got my laptop now, so I'm taking photo's, and going to do a blog entry on the 'Joy of OpenSolaris' :-) This time I remembered when I got a laptop - get one that is compatible with OpenSolaris rather than picking something then whinging that it isn't compatible :P The new ATI RadeonHD drivers are pretty new, and for me, I hold a grudge for a long period of time. Its going to take alot of work in their half to convince me of giving AMD/ATI another go. Matthew > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
