Laptop question

[manchicken]

On Sunday 19 August 2007 22:56:45 David McGlone wrote:
> On Sunday 19 August 2007 8:54:24 pm manchicken wrote:
> > On Sunday 19 August 2007 09:42:43 Nigel Ridley wrote:
> >
> > To be completely honest, I'd personally avoid ATI like the plague if
> > possible. I suppose if you don't want 3D then it's less of a problem, but
> > laptops with ATI often times have other ATI stuff in them like disk
> > controllers and audio devices.
> >
> > Depending on your cost and needs, I still think buying a system76
> > (http://system76.com) is better.
> >
> > Kubuntu should run okay on that laptop, but the ATI hardware sometimes
> > causes trouble.
>
> That's weird, my choice of hardware is ATI and AMD. Never had problems with
> either.
> --
> David M.

AMD is decent, but ATI is crap.  Sorry mate, but you're going to have one hell 
of a time convincing me otherwise.  ATI doesn't know how to write stable 
drivers, they don't share any information that allows anybody else to write 
stable drivers, and their sound card--IXP--is just crap.

Its great that you've had a good experience with them, but even in Windows and 
Mac, ATI is a steaming pile.

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