On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:29 -0500, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have two laptops and I need to decide which one is the best. The > best in a long term, (i.e.: quality, performance, scalability and etc) > > So I’d like to hear from you guys which one would be my choice > > Compaq AMD Athlon64 2.0GHz
Sweet > 1GB RAM Perfect > 80 GB Hard Disk Kinda small > Video card: ATI Radeon 128mb dedicated. Last I saw, Radeon X.org drivers were not so good. > CD-DVD Burner Standard > > Sony VAIO Intel 32bits 1.86ghz Pentium-M? If so, good. > 1GB RAM See above. > 120GB HD Better than 80GB! > Video card: NVIDIA 128mb dedicated This is the video card of choice for Linux. The (closed-source) 3D driver is excellent. > CD-DVD Burner What will you be using it for? "Desktop stiff", or graphics and/ or computationally intensive work? Best is to try and find a laptop with an Athlon64 and NVIDIA graphics chip. Will you be wanting wireless? If it *must* be between these two laptops: For "desktop stuff": laptop with the NVIDIA chip, installing 32-bit Debian, for easy compatibility with mplayer, OpenOffice.org2, Acro- read, Macromedia Flash, etc. For graphically intensive work: laptop with the NVIDIA chip, for the 3D binary driver. For computationally intensive work: the AMD64, installing 64-bit Debian or Ubuntu. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." Mahatma Gandhi
