Decrying stasis in the laptop industry, InfoWorld's Tom Yager and crew have designed their ideal laptop for 2009 given the components are available currently. The project was subjected to the same limitations manufacturers face when whiteboarding a new notebook and introduced only those components that would increase end-user productivity manyfold. The resulting AMD Puma-based WorldBook Ether and WorldBook Meteor [specs, tour, pricing] include an 'Embedded Smartphone' system-in-system ARM microcontroller, flash-memory overlay for fast boot, and ATI/AMD Hybrid Graphics for power-saving switched mode.
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Member since:2005-07-08
I think ATI is getting better with their drivers. Same day Linux support and open source drivers from ATI is definitely a good sign.
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12558
Member since:2006-03-23
yeah well.. same day.. for SOME, lots of people are having issues even getting the driver RUNNING with the 48xx, and for those who does, the drivers are still not supporting opengl properly, leaving stuff such as wine amongst others not working, and naturally xv is broken totally.
The only real hope is the free drivers, which yes, are advancing, and for R500 actually works stable and has proper XV support. But before we see full opengl supports its gonna take time.
Member since:2006-01-04
Member since:2008-04-15
AMD have really pushed forward on ati drivers and it shows.
i have a HD3870 512mb PCIex card and it's been running really well with full 3D support.
ATI has gotten better every release and i really look forward to testing them each month. 8.4 supported my card officially and 8.6 gave me a lot more 3D settings to play around with.
As someone who had never owned an ati card i was really surprised at just how good it was. i won't be Nvidia only from now on.
ATI on linux isn't as laughable as it used to be.
Member since:2006-03-23
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2006-03-23
stupid not using intel graphics... their drivers are simply the best...
They shouldnt even bother showing linux under OS with that ati graphics...