Posts by septesix

Quote: Originally Posted by mmarkin Septesix, may I ask what you need 3D in Linux for? Mikhail I'm mostly going to use it for some graphics research. Some of the programs that I write uses OpenGL and runs...

I'm in the process of choosing a laptop right now. One of the very important thing for me is that I will want to run Linux at least as much as I run WinXP therefore how well the 3D drivers works under Linux is very important to me. Can...

Quote: Originally Posted by ramificatio The Acer 1510 series uses the AMD64 DTR + GeForce Go5700. Do you know anywhere in N.America that I can find it? That'd be a perfect notebook for me , except it again...

How many AMD64 laptop systems out there come with Nvidia graphics? As far as I know there's only the Asus L5000D (which is NOT available in N.America) and Compaq R3000Z/HP ZV5000Z (which is the really old GeForce4 GO). Also, has...

Quote: Originally Posted by lakek42 Also, I almost ordered the same Compaq but I noticed an article in PCMag that said they probably had disabled the 64-bit capability. I called Compaq and it turns out that they did. ...

Any idea where we can get this laptop in North America?

Quote: Originally Posted by Superguy True, but I think that will change in the future. Hyperthreading has already shown that being able to process more than one thread is great. I love it for the smoothness in...

Not exactly the great performance machine people on this forum would like, but the Toshiba Portege M200 has a GeForceGo 5200 chip and so it will at least be able to play more games than those with the integrated video...

Damn. Who knows, I might get ATI's 64bit driver before any laptop maker come out with one that meets my need...

I'm also looking for such an notebook (AMD64 + Nvidia) , mostly because I plan to run 64bits Linux on it and ATI just don't have a 64bit driver for Linux ready yet. The only machine I know so far that fit this requirement is this ...