[SATLUG] $398 Laptop at Wal-Mert

[John Pappas]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:23 -0600, Ernest de Leon wrote:
> I was planning to get one of these and load ubuntu on it.  I didn't know
> that the radeon card shared the video memory on it.  I thought it would be
> similar to my dell that has separate memory on the radeon?

If you note, most of the Dell laptops "split" memory.  A "256Mb" card is
actually 128MB Onboard with 128M Shared Main memory.  There are several
cards that do have 100% onboard RAM.  Any of the "ATI HyperConnect"
cards are split, while the higher-end (ATI Fire GL or nVidia Quattro)
are mostly not split.  Must read the fine print :( and YMMV.

> 
> On 11/1/06, Alex Bartonek <bartonekdragracing at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > --- "Glenn F. Boswell" <gboswell at accd.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Becautious with these. They have shared video so
> > > they will not run
> > > Vista, no big deal for us, but they also have the
> > > broadcom wireless that
> > > only Unbuntu will recognize at present. Compaq/HP is
> > > unloading all their
> > > "Non Vista" boxes before Vista is released. One of
> > > my students has one
> > > ($750.00 in Feb)and it is a pain to work with. Many
> > > of the games he uses
> > > will not run on this box. I don't run games either
> > > but Compaq has never
> > > had a "Linux friendly" reputation so just be "Buyer
> > > Aware" on this "Deal".
> >
> >
> > yea..YMMV.. I had a Compaq V2000 I think was the
> > model.. had broadcom wireless and I could not get it
> > to work even with Linuxant and ndiswrapper.  I might
> > get it as a laptop for my race car though being that
> > its real-time logging software runs under Windows :- /
> > ..which will crash first? the car or the computer?
> > (somewhat funny.)
> >
> > -Alex
> >
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> -- 
> # Ernest De Leon
> 
> "If Microsoft is 'flexible' it explains how their head got where it is."