[ltp] Purchasing New Laptop

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 15:26:49 -0400, Derek A. Rogillio wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 14:48, Sukhjeet Batth wrote:
> > I am interested in purchasing a new laptop.  I'm considering an IBM
> > Thinkpad T40, Dell Inspiron 8500, and Dell Latitude D800.  Does
> > anybody know if one of the ones I'm considering is significantly
> > better than the others for running Linux?  I plan to throw on
> > Redhat 9 and may try Slackware eventually.  Thanks in advance for
> > the information.

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> There are only two things I really wish I had in/on my T40: a Windows
> key, and a video card from Nvidia.  The ATI card is good, but I've found
> the drivers to be flaky when really stressing them (read: games).

If you want to use Linux, ATI drivers for X (and escpecially 3D) are
way better than the crashy buggy binary only nvidia drivers.

Regards,
Tino