[SWLUG] Notebook recommendations

[Jonathan Wright]

Steve Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, P.G. Richardson wrote:
> 
>> Intel drivers and chipsets fine. Currently run the i810 driver for
>> integrated Intel graphics card and Beryl runs very happily.
> 
> Can you get away with running full screen video?  I find that on videos 
> much over 400x300 my FX5200 (with previously mentioned crazy display 
> resolution) can't cope and I have to shut Beryl down.  Similarly, Google 
> Earth doesn't run under Beryl very well on that machine.

I can just about manage full-screen video (1280x1024) with mine, 
although busy sections can stutter a little (hence my looking to upgrade 
the card).

Same goes with cube motion, scaling, etc. when the processor is busy 
(although not sure how much change a new graphics card will bring the 
that one! :)).

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