the ultimate fedora laptop?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 11/01/2009 09:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> * video chipset?  that's the choice that always scares me.  starting
> with f12, what would represent a safe bet?  and it would be nice to
> have a laptop that would comfortably drive an HD TV.

Big can of worms!  If you trade off CPU power for video GPU power and
want to run HD, I hear that nVidia with VDPAU support is the way to go.
 People are watching HD on Atom processors with nVidia video.
If you get enough CPU horsepower (4-5GHz), almost any GPU will do.
Intel and AMD are playing catch-up to nVidia in the HD marketplace.

>   anyway, you get the idea.  thoughts?
> 
> rday
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