On 08/07/13 15:26, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I guess I'm crossing the Traverse Pro off my list. > > But that leads me to wonder if there are *any* high end laptops for sale > today that I can get decent 3D video with - movies, flash, GL, etc.
If your criterion is "decent 3D", I think that any Intel Ivy Bridge video would likely meet your needs. Serious gamers want the high performance offered by high end Nvidia and AMD solutions, but for most people, Intel video has certainly reached the "good enough" level. If I were you, I would be looking at laptops that use the mobile version of the Ivy Bridge architecture, or perhaps Haswell if you like to be on the bleeding edge. Here are a few links that might be useful. Note that phoronix has a tendency to sensationalize, so best to take everything with a grain of salt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Bridge_%28microarchitecture%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_%28microarchitecture%29 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel_hd4000_ivybridge&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTEyNDk galen -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
