[olug] Laptop Options 2

[Corey Spitzer]

I bought a Dell Vostro 1700 last night.
17" widescreen
Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz
2 GB RAM
320 GB HD
128 MB nvidia GeForce 8400M GS
Intel 3945 wifi
Extra battery
... and Vista Home Basic

$1071.08 after tax, free shipping, and $500 coupon code


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Craig Wolf <CJWolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> I have an HP 6715b AMD based laptop with an ATI x1250 card in it and 3d works great (just loaded this yesterday).  No laughing BUT I don't know how to work compiz and I will be playing with that as I find some time.  I DID have to download the ATI drivers to get it working...FYI.
>
>  Just a new piece of info related to the laptop question.
>
>  Craig Wolf
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>  >>> "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> 2/21/2008 >>>
>
>
> Respondents who want to go down the FreeOS / GPL issue path might want to
>  change the subject and/or start a new thread.  I'm interested in the outcome
>  of the great laptop search and I'd like to keep the two discussions separate
>  if possible.
>
>  Dan
>
>  On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:32 AM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
>
>  > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Craig Wolf wrote:
>  > > That is the beauty that Linux gives us all, choice to choose!
>  >
>  > Not true. You're no longer using Linux, but rather an illegal closed
>  > source
>  > operating system. nVidia's kernel code is a GPL violation and saying this
>  > is
>  > the same as saying "That is the beauty BitTorrent gives us all, choice to
>  > choose to use Photoshop/Windows/etc without paying a dime for it!". Both
>  > are
>  > copyright violation.
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