[Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, The graphics card on my FG PC has just died, and as the PC is now quite old and was already on it's second graphics card, I'm looking to buy a laptop to replace it with. Does anyone have a recommendation for laptops, or particular things I should look out for. So far, my requirements

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Csaba Halász
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stuart Buchanan stuart_d_bucha...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The graphics card on my FG PC has just died, and as the PC is now quite old and was already on it's second graphics card, I'm looking to buy a laptop to replace it with. Does anyone have a recommendation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Jon Stockill
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Hi All, The graphics card on my FG PC has just died, and as the PC is now quite old and was already on it's second graphics card, I'm looking to buy a laptop to replace it with. Does anyone have a recommendation for laptops, or particular things I should look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Curtis Olson
For what it's worth, I ended up with a refurb compaq (now hp?) presario laptop with nvidia graphics hardware. It has a dual 64-bit AMD processor and so far I have been really happy with it. Everything (sound, video, wireless network, etc.) is well supported under Linux. And it performs pretty

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stuart Buchanan schrieb: So far, my requirements list is as follows: * 17 screen * NVidia graphics card (non-integrated) * Ubuntu support * Plenty of USB sockets for joystick/pedals. That looks like the list for my Laptop replacement ;) -