Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:09:54 -0500 From: eculp@encontacto.net To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone had bad experiences with a Dell Precision M65 Message-ID: <20070425130954.cs3k1itfwog4kkk0@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <20070425130437.4ff9e172@vixen42> References: <20070425115307.svl8npkpsg8kg4o4@intranet.encontacto.net> <20070425130437.4ff9e172@vixen42>
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Quoting Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:53:07 -0500 > eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > >> I am seriously considering one, more than anything else for the >> 15.4 inch screen with a resolution of 1920 X 1200, assuming that I >> can get that out of XOrg. I want the resolution but don't want a >> monster laptop. Apart from that the price seems ok with 2G of >> memory, and a Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Dual-band Mini-Card (DW1390) >> that should work someday ;) I assume that the bluetooth will >> probably work and if not, no big deal. >> >> Thanks in advance for any information or suggestions, > > From my experience getting that resolution out of Xorg will not be a > issue at all. My suggestion is to go with a Nvidia chipset if you > want decent graphics support. The ATI ones that are common lack 3d > support. I am not sure how the generic Intel ones are for that, but > been less than impressed with them under windows from what I have > seen. > Thanks, Vulpes. Here I can't screw up dell doesn't give me an option to change. It is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M 512MB Turbocache, OpenGL (FX350M) which AFAICT is a 256M card and 256M can be shared from RAM. Thanks again, ed
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