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.
Ciao
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.