Anyone had bad experiences with a Dell Precision M65

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Vulpes Velox <v.velox at vvelox.net>:

> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:09:54 -0500
> eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>
>> Quoting Vulpes Velox <v.velox at vvelox.net>:
>>
>> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:53:07 -0500
>> > eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am seriously considering one, more than anything else for the
>> >> 15.4 inch screen with a resolution of 1920 X 1200, assuming that
>> >> I can get that out of XOrg.  I want the resolution but don't
>> >> want a monster laptop.  Apart from that the price seems ok with
>> >> 2G of memory, and a Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Dual-band Mini-Card
>> >> (DW1390) that should work someday ;)  I assume that the
>> >> bluetooth will probably work and if not, no big deal.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance for any information or suggestions,
>> >
>> > From my experience getting that resolution out of Xorg will not
>> > be a issue at all. My suggestion is to go with a Nvidia chipset
>> > if you want decent graphics support. The ATI ones that are common
>> > lack 3d support. I am not sure how the generic Intel ones are for
>> > that, but been less than impressed with them under windows from
>> > what I have seen.
>> >
>> Thanks, Vulpes.  Here I can't screw up dell doesn't give me an
>> option to change.  It is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 350M 512MB
>> Turbocache, OpenGL (FX350M) which AFAICT is a 256M card and 256M
>> can be shared from RAM.
>
> No clue how well those work. When I got my  Toshiba I made sure it
> was not turbocache since I wanted it for gaming as well. AFAIK it is
> supported, but you will most likely want to double check with the
> Nvidia driver docs. They include a list of supported chipsets in it.
>
Thanks, I found it in the nvidia port.  Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA  
Graphics Chips,  as supported.  Plus, I've never had a nvidia card not  
work that I can remember.

Thanks again,

ed