I've been pretty happy with my Dell Latitude E6400. I bought mine from
their outlet store. If you go that way, look for one with Intel
wireless rather than Dell wireless (Intel vs Broadcom chipset) and Intel
or AMD video. The E6400 has a Core 2 Duo which is 64bit and supports hw
(ok, not the ultimate, just really, really good since i don't want
to break the bank.)
i'm pondering a new laptop to replace my current gateway, and i'm
wondering what a shopping list would look like if i went out hunting
for a system that would be wildly compatible with the imminent fedora
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 09:04 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
* video chipset? that's the choice that always scares me.
Intel's got a reputation for supporting open source video, and just
having to deal with bugs from time to time. NVidia for working closed
source drivers, but abandoning older
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
(ok, not the ultimate, just really, really good since i don't want
to break the bank.)
...
* for me, as much screen res as is reasonably affordable
...
For me it was also as much resolution as possible. But when I switched
from a thinkpad t41p
beyond the standard virt support, is it worth looking at
IOMMU support? (intel calls it VT-d, while AMD calls it AMD-Vi. are
laptops shipping with that feature these days? is it immediately
useful?)
As for VT-d and AMD-Vi, I believe these -are- the standard hardware
virtualization support.
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Jud Craft wrote:
beyond the standard virt support, is it worth looking at
IOMMU support? (intel calls it VT-d, while AMD calls it AMD-Vi. are
laptops shipping with that feature these days? is it immediately
useful?)
As for VT-d and AMD-Vi, I believe these -are-
On 11/01/2009 09:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
* video chipset? that's the choice that always scares me. starting
with f12, what would represent a safe bet? and it would be nice to
have a laptop that would comfortably drive an HD TV.
Big can of worms! If you trade off CPU power for video
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 01:58:04 +1030,
Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Intel's got a reputation for supporting open source video, and just
having to deal with bugs from time to time. NVidia for working closed
Except for the recent GMA 500 based cards which were outsourced.
beyond the standard virt support, is it worth looking at
IOMMU support? (intel calls it VT-d, while AMD calls it AMD-Vi.
Yes, that looks right. IOMMU -is- VT-d.
AIUI, standard HW virt support is AMD-V for AMD, and VT-x
for intel. above and beyond that, you have what *used*
to be called
