3d support on new Centrino laptop

[Bruno Afonso]

Hello,

I am thinking of buying a new laptop, like the hp x1010, nx7000 or maybe 
toshiba satellite Pro M10.

All Hp/Compaq that I'm interested in come with Radeon 9200 videocards, 
and I think there's only linux drivers for agp gart support. No one has 
ported the intel drivers. Since ati doesn't make a videocard driver that 
includes agp gart support, I won't be able to have any 3d acceleration.

Toshiba Satellite Pro M10 comes with a Geforce 420 Go video card and I 
think nvidia drivers may give me 3d acceleration with no major hickups.

Am I thinking correctly about these two options? Can anyone suggest 
other notebooks in the same price range that may be a better choice? :)

Finally, anyone using 3d acceleration daily on a centrino laptop?

I kind of "need it" for structural molecular biology programs. It's not 
nice to work with pymol - for example - without 3d acceleration. I don't 
have any 3d acceleration support on my desktop either and it's a pain to 
work with... (ati videocard, no nforce2 agp gart support)


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Bruno Miguel Afonso
Biological Eng. student.
D.E.Q. @ I.S.T. - Portugal