[PLUG] Laptop video

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 13:20:44 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

>On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 12:59:00 -0700
>Dale Snell <ddsnell at frontier.com> dijo:
>
>>> *I really like the Traverse Pro:
>>> 
>>> http://www.pugetsystems.com/nav/traverse/pro/customize.php?sys_id=61
>>> 
>>> Decked out the way I would want it, including a USB3 docking station
>>> it comes to about $3K. 

>>Oh man oh man, I'm drooling.  Don't do this to me John.  :-)  

>I just sent an e-mail to Puget Systems with seven questions, one of
>which was whether I can disable the touchpad in the desktop
>environment. It has no trackpoint for backup, so I might need to enable
>it without having to reboot. I assume it can be disabled//enabled from
>the command line, but I wanted confirmation.
>
>I also asked them how the video works with, say, Xubuntu.

I have had a series of e-mail interchanges with Puget Systems, mostly
regarding the video. In my next to the last e-mail I asked what their
return policy is. The reply was:

"My understanding is that the NVIDIA driver supports the GTX 770M and
780M models available on the Traverse Pro, but Ubuntu doesn't have the
necessary packages to make it work. I believe that if you are willing
to download some additional source code such as XRandR 1.4, X Server
1.14, and the latest Intel driver module and compile them, it may be
possible to get it working. We are still trying to get a working Ubuntu
configuration for the Pro models. But for now, I can't guarantee any
support of the NVIDIA graphics under Ubuntu. "

I guess I'm crossing the Traverse Pro off my list.

But that leads me to wonder if there are *any* high end laptops for sale
today that I can get decent 3D video with - movies, flash, GL, etc.