>thinkpad w510 wow...that's a supercomputer! >NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M with 1GB DDR3 wow... on a laptop.
Intel Core i7-920XM (2GHz, 8MB Cache) 8GB DDR3 RAM (4GB + 4GB)wow... and multitouch? wow.... How much did you paid, did you buy the version with two finger Mt-screen? On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Bernardo Barros <[email protected]>wrote: > wow! I got a thinkpad w510 and I use nouveau driver (experimental). I > hope I'm not at risk here of damaging my system. This graphic drivers > issue sucks! > > 2010/8/26 pierre <[email protected]>: > > Hi all > > I'm in the way to buy a laptop theses days and would know if someone > could give me a good advice, > > I need to install a debian (or ubuntu) system on it. > > I'll use the laptop for audio/video liveshows with pd/gem, with many GEM > objects so a good graphic card is needed > > I have a max ~900euros budget. > > > > Short story : > > Some years ago a bought an asus a8js with 7700Go nvidia graphic card, > > very good performances and linux friendly, worked perfectly with all > debian/ubuntu distros I've used and I've done a lot of lives and works with > it... > > BUT ! > > This card have burned and damaged all my motherboard ! This is due to a > very bad graphic nvidia (proprietary) driver, explanations here : > > > http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/warning-nvidia-19675-drivers-can-kill-your-graphics-card/7551 > > > > Now a lots of laptop are shipped with ATI cards, so my questions are : > > - are ATI cards goods for pd/gem users ? > > - is someone here have any advice on a good laptop for pd/gem use > > Thanks in advance for any comment/ideas, > > > > pierre > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- Pedro Lopes (ongoing MSc) contact: [email protected] website: http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes
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