[PD] laptop for pd/gem

[Pedro Lopes]

>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
<bernardobarros2 at gmail.com>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 <pierre at 314r.net>:
> > 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
> >
> >
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