Re: Feedback invited for Inspiron 6000 w/ ATI MOBILITYT RADEON® X300 64MB HyperMemoryT

[Robin Laing]

Reshat Sabiq wrote:
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> Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:20:03 -0600
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> Reshat Sabiq wrote:
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>>I ended up going for upper-medium lower-high end, which is what i 
>>think this laptop is.
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>>I'd appreciate any feedback on it. One thing i'm anticipating is that 
>>xorg won't work right off (not 3D anyway), and that i'll need to get 
>>proprietary ATI driver. Could somebody confirm if it works well? ATI 
>>appears to have made a good effort on that driver, but that's just my 
>>impression from their website.
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>>P.S. Btw., for those who are looking, Dell appears to have a good deal 
>>on this laptop till 08/31. It's the best deal i found for those specs.
>>If you are looking at the $850 range, the best deal i found there is 
>>HP Pavillion ze2000t (i looked at deals w/ S-Video only) .
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>>Thanks.
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> Actually, the ATI website only mentions X300 for desktops. I'm finding 
> some references saying xorg radeon driver works well (including hardware 
> acceleration) for X300, however, i haven't seen a definitive answer.

After being burned by the ATI WWW site and their driver, I would look at 
true user feedback before trusting it.  ATI support for their cards does 
not mean all features are supported.  Like lack of 3D.  For me, I will 
avoid ATI video cards for now.  This puts a limit on notebooks but that 
is just life.

Buyer beware.
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Robin Laing