Re: Anyone had bad experiences with a Dell Precision M65

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Quoting Vulpes Velox <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:53:07 -0500
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> I am seriously considering one, more than anything else for the
>> 15.4 inch screen with a resolution of 1920 X 1200, assuming that I
>> can get that out of XOrg.  I want the resolution but don't want a
>> monster laptop.  Apart from that the price seems ok with 2G of
>> memory, and a Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Dual-band Mini-Card (DW1390)
>> that should work someday ;)  I assume that the bluetooth will
>> probably work and if not, no big deal.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any information or suggestions,
>
> From my experience getting that resolution out of Xorg will not be a
> issue at all. My suggestion is to go with a Nvidia chipset if you
> want decent graphics support. The ATI ones that are common lack 3d
> support. I am not sure how the generic Intel ones are for that, but
> been less than impressed with them under windows from what I have
> seen.
>
Thanks, Vulpes.  Here I can't screw up dell doesn't give me an option  
to change.  It is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M 512MB Turbocache, OpenGL  
(FX350M) which AFAICT is a 256M card and 256M can be shared from RAM.

Thanks again,

ed
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