[SWLUG] Notebook recommendations

[P.G. Richardson]

Dont have problems really but then dont do video much on my laptop. Have
happily run dvds on it full screen and not really noticed any problems.
Only difficulty I had was happily running Netbeans (java IDE). For some
reason, this complained about beryl more than Eclipse.

PGR

> 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.
>
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