[PLUG] Laptop video

[King Beowulf]

Try System76. They have some nice stuff - dying to get one myself.
IIRC, they come preloaded with Ubuntu, or you can pick your distro of
choice.

-Ed


On 8/7/13, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
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