>thinkpad w510<br>wow...that's a supercomputer!<br><br><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" class="width490"><span name="intelliTxt" id="intelliTxt">>NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M with 1GB DDR3</span></span><br>
wow... on a laptop. <br><br><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;" class="width490"><span name="intelliTxt" id="intelliTxt"><li>Intel Core i7-920XM (2GHz, 8MB Cache)</li>
<li>8GB DDR3 RAM (4GB + 4GB)</li></span></span>wow...<br><br>and multitouch? wow....<br><br>How much did you paid, did you buy the version with two finger Mt-screen?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Bernardo Barros <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernardobarros2@gmail.com">bernardobarros2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">wow! I got a thinkpad w510 and I use nouveau driver (experimental). I<br>
hope I'm not at risk here of damaging my system. This graphic drivers<br>
issue sucks!<br>
<br>
2010/8/26 pierre <<a href="mailto:pierre@314r.net">pierre@314r.net</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hi all<br>
> I'm in the way to buy a laptop theses days and would know if someone could give me a good advice,<br>
> I need to install a debian (or ubuntu) system on it.<br>
> I'll use the laptop for audio/video liveshows with pd/gem, with many GEM objects so a good graphic card is needed<br>
> I have a max ~900euros budget.<br>
><br>
> Short story :<br>
> Some years ago a bought an asus a8js with 7700Go nvidia graphic card,<br>
> 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...<br>
> BUT !<br>
> This card have burned and damaged all my motherboard ! This is due to a very bad graphic nvidia (proprietary) driver, explanations here :<br>
> <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/warning-nvidia-19675-drivers-can-kill-your-graphics-card/7551" target="_blank">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/warning-nvidia-19675-drivers-can-kill-your-graphics-card/7551</a><br>
><br>
> Now a lots of laptop are shipped with ATI cards, so my questions are :<br>
> - are ATI cards goods for pd/gem users ?<br>
> - is someone here have any advice on a good laptop for pd/gem use<br>
> Thanks in advance for any comment/ideas,<br>
><br>
> pierre<br>
><br>
><br>
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