Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

[Bob <spam@homeurl.co.uk>]

David Palmer wrote:
> Bob wrote:
> > I'm looking for a laptop with a dual core AMD64 CPU, AMD GPU with 
> > dedicated (non-shared) GRAM, built in webcam, user changeable 
> > Harddrive & battery, high RAM capacity, large high quality screen, a 
> > nice keyboard and good linux support for all the power saving, 
> > suspends, wifi etc....
> >
> > I'd also like it to have DVI, SPDIF, USB2, FireWire, jumbo frame GbE, 
> > Infrared and eSATA ports
> > Has anyone seen one?
> At present, I'm looking (but only looking), at the M59 SLI here:
>
> http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/products.asp?c1=3&c2=15


Nice, I'm after one with AMD / ATI graphics, the MSI ones
http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_index.asp
Look very nice but support for the ATI RS690 chipsets onboard graphics 
is pretty basic
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMwNQ
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7491
so I'm waiting for that to mature a bit.