[PD] OT: any advice on HP notebook for PD visuals?

[B. Bogart]

Has anyone tried a benchmarking patch for Gem so we can compare these
issues? I'm very curious about these intel gfx chips Frank and Marc have
been talking about for years now. I wonder how they compare:

Nvidia geforce2 == radeon 8000? == intel?

Of course I'm guessing there is no shader support on those intel cards
at all right?

Paris, why an HP? Just curious...

I've been dreaming anout a linux-only laptop myself lately...

.b.

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Hallo,
>> Paris Treantafeles hat gesagt: // Paris Treantafeles wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for yet another laptop question (there are many in the 
>>> archives), but since specs change often, I thought I'd ask.
>>>
>>> I'm in need of a new laptop.
>>> I use Pd/Gem/PiDiP/Gridflow for visuals and run Debian.
>>>
>>> My preferences are:
>>>
>>> 1. AMD processor
>>
>> You may want to reconsider this: When targetting Linux then
>> Intel-laptops are a much better choice because you get good open
>> source drivers and support for most hardware out of the box.
>>
> 
> i cannot reproduce this.
> the only closed-source drivers you usually will come across are graphics
> card and w-lan (see below). i never had any problems with any other
> component on AMD-based systems (even if the mb-chipset is by nvidia, you
> will get everything to run with a stock (GPL) kernel)
> 
> graphics cards: of course you can go for intel, but these chips are just
> crap compared to state-of-the-art technology by nvidia and/or radeon.
> both of these cards come with proprietary drivers if you want to take
> advantage of this hardware. if you prefer open source drivers, they are
> available as well (but not so good).
> i don't know for sure, but i guess that using an nvidia card with "nv"
> (==OS) drivers won't behave worse than intel gfx cards with their OS
> drivers.
> if you seriously want to do Gem, then you also want a gfx card that
> supports openGL. you don't have much choice.
> 
> wlan: i think that here the intel chipsets are best (open-source like);
> however you could be lucky and your non-intel wlan card is supported too.
> 
> mfg.adsr
> IOhannes
> 
> 
> PS: pd-ot
> 
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