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

[Cesare Marilungo]

Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>Paris Treantafeles hat gesagt: // Paris Treantafeles wrote:
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>>Sorry for yet another laptop question (there are many in the  
>>archives), but since specs change often, I thought I'd ask.
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>>I'm in need of a new laptop.
>>I use Pd/Gem/PiDiP/Gridflow for visuals and run Debian.
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>>My preferences are:
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>>1. AMD processor
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>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.
>
>Ciao
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I've a custom built desktop pc and an HP laptop both with AMD chips. No 
probs so far.

On the desktop pc I use mostly Slackware but sometimes I boot into Suse 
10.0 (for the apps that take more advantage of the 64bit addressing). On 
the laptop I have only Slackware installed.

Having experience with both Nvidia and Ati cards, I suggest you to look 
for a laptop with an Nvidia. I've never had problems with the NVidia 
drivers on linux so far.

Instead, my HP Pavilion 8002AE has an Ati card and I had some problems 
when I tried to upgrade to the latest drivers (maybe the driver is 
buggy, or I made something wrong configuring it). Haven't tried the 
s-video output yet. Everything else (apart from the multi card reader) 
works.

Ciao,

c.

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