Suggestions for laptop purchase for Fedora Core 3?

Edgar Ribeiro fedora at luzdosenhor.com
Wed May 11 00:40:58 UTC 2005


I really suggest TOSHIBA Satellite A75-s211 or s231.

I use s231 with Windows XP Home and Fedora 3.

It's perfect.

Em Seg, 2005-05-09 às 16:07 -0400, Sam Varshavchik escreveu:
> Charles E Taylor IV writes:
> 
> > A bigger issue would seem to be 3D support.  What modern laptops have good
> > out-of-box 3D support without proprietary dirvers, or are there any?  Both
> > newer ATI and NVIDEA chips require proprietary drivers.  My current
> > laptop's got an ATI chipset that's old enough to have 3D support in xorg,
> > but that means it ain't no speed demon. :)
> 
> The laptop that I got has a fairly decent 3D support, using a 
> Mach64-compatible chipset.  At least I think it does.  I'm not really that 
> big into gaming, but all the OpenGL screensavers seem to work just fine. 
> Certainly I don't think I'd get 100fps in Quake, but the graphics hardware 
> seems to be good enough for at least full motion video, and that's enough 
> for me.
> 
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