This is my new laptop. It is extremely nifty. Linux details – Networking is perfect (wired and wireless). The latest NVIDIA driver makes the graphics 3d accelerated, but I lose the console. Solaris wired networking was easy – I added the PCI identifier to the bge entries (14e4,1600) and it just worked (mind you I’m getting spurious SSH failures – could be networking related). The graphics don’t work – the NV driver doesn’t support the card (too new/too old Solaris Express). I’ve downloaded the latest drivers from the nvidia site and am just seeing how things work.
It’s a really fast computer – scarily so. I can play all my games at full panel native resolution (1920×1200) and it simply rocks. The dual core means that broken programs don’t take me down (they tend to be badly written single threaded applications). I think it may be time for an evil laugh!
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Which one ? With the 512MB graphics card or the other one ? How hot does is get compared to that ferrari you used to use long time ago 🙂
The picture does not really do justice to the blue neon ‘go faster’ lights which adorn the casing.!
Does yours have the same annoying system beep that you can’t switch off?
I agree wholeheartedly about the video card – San Andreas at 1920×1200 never looked so good! (Tho’ I do find it aint as stable as on my desktop.)