On 09/19/2010 03:49 PM, James McKenzie wrote: > On 9/18/10 8:43 AM, Alessandro Boggiano wrote: >> I have to buy a second hand laptop and I have to choose between two >> Dell laptops! >> They are almost the same the only big difference is the video card: >> one has Nvidia 8600M GT 512MB and the other has a Radeon >> ATI HD3650 256 MB. >> My goal is soft video editing and normal use (web, office...) and of >> course all the 3D functions of kde! ;) >> > Get the laptop with the nVidia card. Their drivers are much better than > AMDs (Catalyst 10.7 broke a bunch of things.) > > James McKenzie >
I would agree with one caveat, Nvidia had a bad overheating problem with certain models of laptop video chips. So bad it would melt the chip connections. I'd investigate this carefully before I bought any of the older Nvidia based laptops (like the 8600M). The problem has been fixed in the latest generation of chips. Regards, John -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
