<p>My main concern was whether the old GPU will work on newer distro's/kernels (with the nvidia driver)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 4, 2012 11:29 PM, "charles chris" <<a href="mailto:cccharlz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">cccharlz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Its a refurb steal! $200 cheaper than what paid for Compaq cq50 1.9 ghz dual core 1280 X 800 15.6 display in 2008.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Tyler Aviss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey LUG'ers,<br>
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<br>
I've currently got an Asus laptop. Beautiful power with a Core i7, 8GB<br>
of RAM, etc.<br>
<br>
However, I've been doing a lot of dev work lately, and the one falling<br>
point I've run into is that 1366x768 isn't a lot of real-estate<br>
screen-size<br>
<br>
I started looking at what's available for larger screens, and noticed<br>
this little guy with a 1920x1200 native LCD resolution.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200599&Tpk=M6300" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200599&Tpk=M6300</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Obviously it's a bit older and the Core2 probably isn't going to keep<br>
up with my i7, but according to here the Linux compatibility is good:<br>
<a href="http://www.linlap.com/wiki/dell+precision+m6300" target="_blank">http://www.linlap.com/wiki/dell+precision+m6300</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Anyone have one of these and/or know how well it performs on a recent<br>
linux distro? At $267 the price is quite nice...<br>
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