| [15:12] <ajunior> good afternoon | |
| [15:51] <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 | |
| [15:55] <Spets> !laptop testing | |
| [15:56] <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 | |
| [15:57] <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 | |
| [15:58] <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 | |
| [15:59] <Spets> The e4500 and the like are some mighty fine builds | |
| [15:59] <incidence> Hmm | |
| [16:00] <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 | |
| [16:01] <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] | |
| [16:02] <Spets> IGP X45000HD performs quite well from what ive read, and you will be spared the evils of fglrx and nivida drivers | |
| [16:08] <incidence> Oh | |
| [16:09] <incidence> Thanks :) | |
| [16:09] <Spets> Matte screen also | |
| [16:09] <Spets> Hard to find that nowadays | |
| [16:11] <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 | |
| [16:13] <Spets> colours are better? | |
| [16:13] <Spets> Madness i tell you | |
| [16:13] <Spets> Madness | |
| [16:16] <incidence> Yeah. | |
| [16:17] <incidence> Too bad that Dell Latitude E6500 costs $2201 in finland | |
| [16:18] <Spets> liiiiinus :) | |
| [16:18] <Spets> I suspect it wont be much cheaper in norway then... | |
| [16:19] <incidence> 1416 eur without VAT. So the 'real price' is: 1 416 * 1.22 = 1 727.52 | |
| [16:21] <incidence> Funny. These prices don't seem so bad after buying 1U server from HP to my work. (quad core intel xeon, 2.4ghz, 10gb ddr2 667mhz ecc, sas 2.5" 1tb raid1+0 with iLO2 Advanced) :P | |
| [16:22] <Spets> I saw a dual core xeon 1U for 10$ on ebay | |
| [16:22] <Spets> But i resisted | |
| [16:23] <incidence> :D | |
| [16:23] <incidence> We got that hp proliant dl360 g5 with 3k eur | |
| [16:25] <Spets> I had one of the compaq proliants at home a while back | |
| [16:26] <Spets> Took all my strength to lift that monster | |
| [16:27] <incidence> :P | |
| [16:28] <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 | |
| [16:29] <Spets> Yes, running windows servers is nothing but grief | |
| [16:29] <incidence> That has never even been a choice when I get to decide | |
| [16:30] <Spets> Resignation: because, windows. | |
| [16:30] <incidence> :) | |
| [16:31] <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" | |
| [16:32] <incidence> Yea, I'm in a small advertisement company | |
| [16:32] <incidence> Heh :) yea | |
| [16:33] <Spets> Some people think i have to because they are the ones paying, and get struck by panic if i refuse | |
| [16:38] <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. | |
| [16:39] <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 | |
| [16:40] <incidence> Oh ok | |
| [16:41] <Spets> Overall not more problematic than before i think | |
| [16:42] <Spets> But the situation is very much better than before | |
| [16:45] <incidence> I have nvidia 8600 gt and ubuntu 6.06 at the moment on my pc | |
| [16:50] <Spets> 6.06? | |
| [16:50] <Spets> Ye olde 6.06? | |
| [16:52] <incidence> 8.04 | |
| [16:52] <incidence> sorry :D | |
| [16:59] <Spets> "update-manager -d" | |
| [17:02] <incidence> :) | |
| [18:45] <AcidPuddle> any ideas when the netbook remix will appear ? | |
| [18:49] <Spets> Its out.. | |
| [19:26] <AcidPuddle> hmmm... where do I find it ? doesn't seem to be on the general download servers for ubuntu... | |