gaming notebook recommendations?

Marcelo Magno T. Sales marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br
Thu May 10 13:04:37 UTC 2007


Em Qui 10 Mai 2007, Neal Becker escreveu:
> I'm looking for suggestions for a fedora-friendly gaming notebook.
>
> I'd like:
> * 3d graphics (beryl support)
> * 17" with some decent resolution (> 1280x1024)
> * 64bit
> * wireless that actually works
> * 7200rpm sata
>
> I intend to run fc7.
>
> So far, I found dell xps series that looks pretty good.
>
> Question: I know if I go with nvidia option I can have decent 3d, but need
> to use proprietary driver.  The other option is intel graphics.  Anyone
> know if this works well on Fedora, and if beryl works on this?

Intel graphics works ok in Fedora and supports beryl pretty well. However, 
it's not as fast as nvidia. For beryl, this does not make any difference, but 
for 3D gaming it will be certainly noticeable.

[]'s
Marcelo




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