[svlug] Light AMD laptop for linux?

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:10:48 -0800
Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:

> OK, yeah, a non-masochist could conceivably be satisfied with free
> drivers on an nForce chipset if Ethernet and other things nForce
> provides are never used, which may very well be the case on a
> laptop. See -- being too specific can also be something that needs
> avoiding.

desktop athlon x2 (first generation), asus a8n-sli mobo.

Running sid stock kernel + nvidia proprietary video drivers.

nvidia CK804 (eth, audio, ide, sata) worked out of the box.
On board I've a TI firewire (it should work never tried) and a
marvell technology eth (worked out of the box).

I didn't succeed to make dm_raid work (I didn't try too much actually)
and I'm running Linux soft raid.

I choose an nvidia video board cos I had a reasonably good experience
installing proprietary drivers on other boxes and cos it was the
cheapest that could drive my lcd to 1920x1200 on dvi.
Installation of *non server* ati drivers has been a PITA in the past.

I'm planning to buy a new notebook and a new server with good support
for vitalisation.
If I had to buy it now I'll buy an Intel notebook for battery life
and an AMD server for VT and HyperTransport.

At this point I'll still chose nvidia/amd desktop (chipset,
video), amd/ati for server and intel for notebook (chipset, video).

The newest intel box I have is my notebook and it is over 6 or 7 years
old.

In the future I may consider ati/amd for desktop.

I had the feeling that in recent times (3+ years) amd hasn't been able
to produce low power mobile cpu with good chipset for wifi.

So even if you're planning to buy a old one, amd doesn't look a good
choice for a notebook.

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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