-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 2007-05-11 17:18:17 Jim van Wel wrote: > > Jim van Wel writes: > > > >> about this, but don't know where anymore. But if you want a good laptop, > >> with a good video card, stick with Nvidia. It's really good supported > >> with > >> the > >> proprietary driver. > > > > â?¦ today. What's going to happen tomorrow, is anyone's guess. In case > > you're not aware of it, Nvidia's current binary blob does not support some > > of their older hardware. Whenever Nvidia decides that you should buy their > > new hardware, they'll just stop supporting your model. They have done it > > before, they'll do it again. Then, the next time there is a > > significantly-enough kernel ABI chance that their shim stub can't deal > > with, > > you're boned. > > > > When that happens, and you (not you specifically, just saying this in > > general) come shedding tears, it won't be easy for me to feel any sympathy > > for you. > > > > > Hi there, > > But then you can fallback on the older binary code? But you are right, they > drop some older hardware. But then again, what is the best than for laptops? > Ati? Intel? You tell me ;). > I am AMD fan (or just prefer AMD), but facing this sort of situation (I just play frozen-bubble and gl-117 sometimes) I bought and Intel notebook. If someday ATI/AMD fix the issue somehow I'll probably sell this one and go buy another. If you want to take the risk of having no way to update any more at some point and want the fastest possible 3D - nvidia. The worst part of this is that you will also support closed source drivers too, I would not. - -- Regards, Doncho N. Gunchev, GPG key ID: 0EF40B9E, Key server: pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGS5j66c5Vbw70C54RAiwWAKC3c0mqytJCBMDvhF92z80l6TYUkACfaeWp VJNAo7Hr+I4M7XH7E/xZjCc= =Agxl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
