| ajunior | good afternoon | 15:12 |
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| incidence | Hey, which laptop would be "the most compatible" with ubuntu? I've just have had some bad experiences. Dell? But what about asus? or something | 15:51 |
| Spets | !laptop testing | 15:55 |
| Spets | hmm, check out the lapop testing team | 15:56 |
| Spets | incidence: | laptop testing team | 15:56 |
| pwnguin | i dont think the testing team has Top Picks program | 15:56 |
| incidence | Thanks. | 15:57 |
| Spets | But they have a listing over what works | 15:57 |
| pwnguin | yea; i havent updated my page since like gutsy | 15:57 |
| Spets | Ideally you get something that comes without windows and works | 15:57 |
| pwnguin | personally, I'd say if it comes from the vendor with linux installed, that's good enough ;) | 15:58 |
| Spets | Lattitude and presicion dells can be bought without windows | 15:58 |
| incidence | Yea | 15:58 |
| Spets | sans-os will do the trick | 15:58 |
| incidence | I had latitude d810 or something | 15:58 |
| Spets | The e4500 and the like are some mighty fine builds | 15:59 |
| incidence | Hmm | 15:59 |
| Spets | presicion mobile M4400 | 16:00 |
| Spets | http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB151&s=biz | 16:00 |
| Spets | Has professional graphics NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M, 512MB | 16:00 |
| Spets | latitude E 6500 | 16:00 |
| Spets | http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&oc=MLB1355&s=biz | 16:01 |
| Spets | Has power saving Mobile Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD [Included in Price] | 16:01 |
| Spets | Or | 16:01 |
| Spets | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M [add $70] | 16:01 |
| Spets | IGP X45000HD performs quite well from what ive read, and you will be spared the evils of fglrx and nivida drivers | 16:02 |
| incidence | Oh | 16:08 |
| incidence | Thanks :) | 16:09 |
| Spets | Matte screen also | 16:09 |
| Spets | Hard to find that nowadays | 16:09 |
| incidence | I hate glossy screens, at work we have one hp laptop which has glossy screen. I know the colours are better, but it just sucks in fluoriscent light | 16:11 |
| Spets | colours are better? | 16:13 |
| Spets | Madness i tell you | 16:13 |
| Spets | Madness | 16:13 |
| incidence | Yeah. | 16:16 |
| incidence | Too bad that Dell Latitude E6500 costs $2201 in finland | 16:17 |
| Spets | liiiiinus :) | 16:18 |
| Spets | I suspect it wont be much cheaper in norway then... | 16:18 |
| incidence | 1416 eur without VAT. So the 'real price' is: 1 416 * 1.22 = 1 727.52 | 16:19 |
| incidence | Funny. These prices don't seem so bad after buying 1U server from HP to my work. (quad core intel xeon, 2.4ghz, 10gb ddr2 667mhz ecc, sas 2.5" 1tb raid1+0 with iLO2 Advanced) :P | 16:21 |
| Spets | I saw a dual core xeon 1U for 10$ on ebay | 16:22 |
| Spets | But i resisted | 16:22 |
| incidence | :D | 16:23 |
| incidence | We got that hp proliant dl360 g5 with 3k eur | 16:23 |
| Spets | I had one of the compaq proliants at home a while back | 16:25 |
| Spets | Took all my strength to lift that monster | 16:26 |
| incidence | :P | 16:27 |
| Spets | You should train with one of those for the wife carrying contest :) | 16:28 |
| incidence | We are running Ubuntu servers. And couldn't be more happy cause Ubuntu | 16:28 |
| incidence | Haha | 16:28 |
| Spets | Yes, running windows servers is nothing but grief | 16:29 |
| incidence | That has never even been a choice when I get to decide | 16:29 |
| Spets | Resignation: because, windows. | 16:30 |
| incidence | :) | 16:30 |
| Spets | I run my own little company. Refuse to touch anything with windows on it | 16:31 |
| Spets | So funny to see peoples faces when i tell them "no, i wont fix it" | 16:31 |
| incidence | Yea, I'm in a small advertisement company | 16:32 |
| incidence | Heh :) yea | 16:32 |
| Spets | Some people think i have to because they are the ones paying, and get struck by panic if i refuse | 16:33 |
| incidence | What is the fglrx driver situation nowadays? I remember three or four years ago burning one ati card with fire cause pissed off cause drivers. | 16:38 |
| Spets | Just recently it started playing nice with xorg 7.4 | 16:39 |
| incidence | somebody told me that they are now opensource? Which I do not believe. | 16:39 |
| Spets | Not fglrx | 16:39 |
| Spets | But much of the documentation is out | 16:39 |
| incidence | and I've heard that nvidia has a lots of problems with the newest xorg | 16:39 |
| Spets | Then followed Novells attempt at a opensource driver, radeonhd | 16:39 |
| incidence | Oh ok | 16:40 |
| Spets | Overall not more problematic than before i think | 16:41 |
| Spets | But the situation is very much better than before | 16:42 |
| incidence | I have nvidia 8600 gt and ubuntu 6.06 at the moment on my pc | 16:45 |
| Spets | 6.06? | 16:50 |
| Spets | Ye olde 6.06? | 16:50 |
| incidence | 8.04 | 16:52 |
| incidence | sorry :D | 16:52 |
| Spets | "update-manager -d" | 16:59 |
| incidence | :) | 17:02 |
| AcidPuddle | any ideas when the netbook remix will appear ? | 18:45 |
| Spets | Its out.. | 18:49 |
| AcidPuddle | hmmm... where do I find it ? doesn't seem to be on the general download servers for ubuntu... | 19:26 |
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