[ltp] X2x dri/opengl performance

[Tod Harter]

Honestly for the type of applications you're talking about I've found my 750 
mhz A20p to be perfectly adequate. The rage 128 is certainly not in the 
cutting edge of video performance anymore, but all the apps you mentioned 
I've run satisfactorily. DVD playback seems fine, you can get S-Video out 
(theoretically you can do some sort of capture too, never really made that 
work myself...). Tux racer works fine. Quack is fine too, framerates are 
predictably mediocre but still fine for all but the most demanding.

I never had any complaints about things like compilation either. I would say 
compiling is at least as much a RAM issue as it is a CPU issue though, get 
lots of RAM, I run 768 megs on mine.

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 9:04 am, Mcleod A wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Lately I've been finding that the tp240 that I picked up
> last summer underestimated my requirements for computing
> power.  I figured that I would mostly be web surfing /
> emailing from the system.
>
> Now I'm finding that I would like to be watching DVD's, cut
> my compiling times, and be able to run opengl programs. I
> think that one of the X2x series of thinkpad with the
> Mobile Radeon and a 700+ processor will be sufficient to
> get me through until I build a new desktop system in the
> fall with up to date processors and graphics cards.  My
> main concern is the Mobile Radeon performance with DRI, or
> the XIG xserver.  I want to be able to play Tux racer,
> quake 1/2, etc with resonable performance.  There will
> probably be other opengl programs I will want to try, but I
> think those are the main ones.
>
> What I'm looking for is:
> Does anyone on the list have an X2x laptop with DRI or XIG
> running on it, and
> How is the performance, what 3d do you run on it, and how
> does it run?
>
> I want to make sure I buy my next laptop right, because I
> don't want to buy too small and be doing this again in 6
> months.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam.

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Tod Harter
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