Reshat Sabiq wrote:
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Date:
Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:20:03 -0600
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Reshat Sabiq wrote:
I ended up going for upper-medium lower-high end, which is what i
think this laptop is.
I'd appreciate any feedback on it. One thing i'm anticipating is that
xorg won't work right off (not 3D anyway), and that i'll need to get
proprietary ATI driver. Could somebody confirm if it works well? ATI
appears to have made a good effort on that driver, but that's just my
impression from their website.
P.S. Btw., for those who are looking, Dell appears to have a good deal
on this laptop till 08/31. It's the best deal i found for those specs.
If you are looking at the $850 range, the best deal i found there is
HP Pavillion ze2000t (i looked at deals w/ S-Video only) .
Thanks.
Actually, the ATI website only mentions X300 for desktops. I'm finding
some references saying xorg radeon driver works well (including hardware
acceleration) for X300, however, i haven't seen a definitive answer.
After being burned by the ATI WWW site and their driver, I would look at
true user feedback before trusting it. ATI support for their cards does
not mean all features are supported. Like lack of 3D. For me, I will
avoid ATI video cards for now. This puts a limit on notebooks but that
is just life.
Buyer beware.
--
Robin Laing
