On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:06 PM, pierre <pierre@314r.net> wrote:
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 ?

ATI cards are less good for Linux users :o/ as support is sparse and sometimes (especially a few years after buying the computer) you may have problems finding a driver. I think a motherboard-burning driver is an exceptional problem which should not repeat anytime soon, so I'd go with Nvidia.

Andras