[ltp] Re: How do you like your W500 or W700?

[Richard Neill]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Bill Wohler wrote:
>> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> writes:
>>> Avoid nvidia at all cost.
>> ?
> 
> You are going to have a lead weight piece of crap in ~2 years, when they
> drop support.  Which they will.  They have what, three or four *legacy*
> video drivers already?  Each of them require updates every one or two kernel
> releases to even compile, let alone keep working... this is NOT going to
> scale forever.

To be fair to Nvidia, they are still supporting the FX5200 card that I 
bought 5 years ago, when it was high-end.

One might hope for some good results from the nouveau project by that 
time.  http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

Also, there's always the vesa driver. With a fast CPU, it's really not bad.

Richard