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