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:
- 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.
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PS: pd-ot