Jai Harrison wrote: > I would like to be able to run Ubuntu with desktop effects and plenty > of spare resources for things such as gaming through Wine (nothing too > heavy - Age of Mythology, would like to give Age of Empires 3 a try), > running virtual machines on, etc. The laptop should be decent with > said things for the next 3 years (my bachelor's degree course length).
I like my Dell Inspiron 1520. Dual-core for oomph, Intel i965/X3100 graphics works great with Compiz under Hardy, just about plays Portal and Neverwinter Nights when I dual-boot into MS-Windows. Broadcom WiFi works through propriatory drivers. Dell and Intel actively sponsor development of open-source drivers for their hardware (notably, the Intel i965 driver was massively improved for Hardy; Dell gave away laptops to graphics driver developers to encourage this). I got mine for GBP450 about four months ago. So long as I don't try to play Team Fortress 2 on it, it seems happy. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
