I caved in... (DUDE! He's getting a DELL!)

[strredwolf]

Christmas got me a few work shirts and pants that were nessisary in easing tension in the household... but...

I've caved in.

The cheapest, yet modern NVidia laptop would be $1500.  A Whitebook (no-OS, custom) would be $850 if I skimped on the processor and GPU.

Yet an ATI Radeon X1300 sporting Dell Inspiron E1505, with a Core Duo processor, only costs $870.  Under $900.  For a Core Duo!

So, I caved.  The laptop's being built now.

Comments

[bibliophage.livejournal.com]

Just looked at it - that Radeon shares half of its memory from the operating system. the 128 has 64 of its own, and 64 snitched from the OS. The 256 has 128 on-board, and 128 snitched.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I'll have to make sure I set Xorg up and force it to 64. Damn, shared memory's going to be slooooooooooow.