Posts by jconover

Oh, one of my main reasons for going with the HP instead of the Sager and a lot of other laptops was the Nivida card. I'm a Linux only user and ATI for the most part sucks in Linux. Plus, in Missouri this weekend (at least my City)...

I ended up buying the zd7260 this weekend and just ordered a 7200RPM HD and 1GB PC2700 stick from newegg, I wished I had new pc-32000 was supported. :angry:. Oh well, I do like this laptop, it's the 3.2GHz and it doesn't get HOT at...

btw FYI..... http://www.zd7000forums.com/ Might be useful if you didn't know it was there.

How is the battery life on it? I'm looking at these because of the Nvidia Go5700 128MB and Linux support for this laptop seems to be good.

blasted, thx for the info.

I'm not sure I want to pay the price for an alienware now, I've been looking at so many laptops the last 5 days my head is about to explode.

Any chance you can put one of these in a 9100/xps??????? I called dell tech/sales and both of the people acted like they had no idea what i was talking about, so I'm not to impressed with them so far I'm not sure how many ways I...

That helped lol

Ok, I decided to take the dive and get the AW, now I just have to figure out. Saucer Silver, Conspiracy Blue or Cyborg Green

Thx for the reply, that is cool cause I will be running Gentoo ;-) As far as the Radeon cards go, AFAIK Mobility 9600Pro is the highest supported card. http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/Linux_390.html Mobility 9700 & 9800...