System76 only supports Ubuntu.  Zareason https://zareason.com supports
several distros.  Think Penguin https://www.thinkpenguin.com is extremely
flexible about what distros they support.


On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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