Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 14.06.2012, Alan Cox wrote: > > Any Intel with embedded grafics will do. > Almost. Anything containing GMA500, GMA600, GMA3600 or GMA3650 is an > intergrated Imagination core and not properly supported on Linux (no > acceleration etc). Thanks Alan, for the good information! I will soon hav

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Alan Cox
> Any Intel with embedded grafics will do. Almost. Anything containing GMA500, GMA600, GMA3600 or GMA3650 is an intergrated Imagination core and not properly supported on Linux (no acceleration etc). GMA500 is the old Poulsbo (some Dell minis for example) but not in current production. GMA600 is

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-14 Thread Tim
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 08:22 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > If you don't buy the latest and greatest, all should work just fine. Kind of hard to do... /me walks into the shop and asks the shop keeper if I can buy a two year old laptop, please, and with a specific chipset for graphics, for sound, for

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-13 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.06.2012, Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about > buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux > compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? If you don't buy the latest and greatest, all

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Tim
Sam Varshavchik: >> Lenovo W520 works too, except for the built-in microphone. Except for >> the microphone, the hardware compatibility in F17 is perfect. F16 needs >> current F16 updates to get nouveau working. Steve Dowe: > That's peculiar - you'd expect something like that to work (i.e. be the

Re: thinking about new laptop - comments on mini-netbooks/notebooks?

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 17:51, Max Pyziur wrote: Are there any comments on user experience on mini-notebooks/netbooks? For example, the NB505 series? I've had a Samsung N130 for the past couple of years. All great apart from the Realtek 8192e wireless chip, which always seems to be hassle on Fedora. Th

Re: thinking about new laptop - comments on mini-netbooks/notebooks?

2012-06-11 Thread fedoraproject
Are there any comments on user experience on mini-notebooks/netbooks? For example, the NB505 series? I'm running 64-bit Core 17 on a Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 (Atom: N450). I don't recall any software problems whatsoever, and I have been using the netbook for hours every day for more than a

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/11/2012 09:21 AM, Dokuro wrote: I would not consider AMD, I have really bad experiences with them on linux, I own a full AMD/Ati PC and wish I didn't... my poor fedora box has too many glitches on free drivers and no support for closed ones... I have two AMD-based desktops that work fine.

Re: thinking about new laptop - comments on mini-netbooks/notebooks?

2012-06-11 Thread Max Pyziur
> On 06/11/2012 04:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote: >> Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking >> about >> buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux >> compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? >> >> I guess graphics chipset is

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Dokuro
I would not consider AMD, I have really bad experiences with them on linux, I own a full AMD/Ati PC and wish I didn't... my poor fedora box has too many glitches on free drivers and no support for closed ones... On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 06/11/2012 04:03 AM, Neal

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/11/2012 04:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote: Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
On 06/11/2012 12:03 PM, Neal Becker wrote: Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 13:11, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Lenovo W520 works too, except for the built-in microphone. Except for the microphone, the hardware compatibility in F17 is perfect. F16 needs current F16 updates to get nouveau working. That's peculiar - you'd expect something like that to work (i.e. b

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Steve Dowe writes: On 11/06/12 12:03, Neal Becker wrote: I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expect to need 3D performance, but want decent 2D. Any suggestions? I've been very happy with my Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The T430 replaces it now, I think. Lenovo W520 works to

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about > buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux > compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? > > I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expe

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:03:15 -0400 Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about > buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux > compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? > > I guess graphics chips

RE: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Neal Becker Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 1:03 PM To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: thinking about new laptop Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as de

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Neal Becker wrote: > Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm > thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I > worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much > resolved now? > > I guess graphics chipset is the bigges

Re: thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Steve Dowe
On 11/06/12 12:03, Neal Becker wrote: I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expect to need 3D performance, but want decent 2D. Any suggestions? I've been very happy with my Lenovo ThinkPad T420. The T430 replaces it now, I think. 100% hardware compatibility with Fedora,

thinking about new laptop

2012-06-11 Thread Neal Becker
Currently have hp dv9000 17" used as desktop replacement. I'm thinking about buying something new (not hp this time). Should I worry about linux compatibility, or are those issues pretty much resolved now? I guess graphics chipset is the biggest issue. I don't expect to need 3D performance,