Linux-friendly laptops

Tyler Aviss tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 1 19:44:48 UTC 2008


My understanding is that the current "fix" for these chips is to patch
the BIOS of affected machines to run the cooling fans on a more
constant basis to prevent overheating, so they're not really replacing
them in these cases.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:08:56AM -0400, Tyler Aviss wrote:
>> Hmmm. Looks like now is perhaps not a great time to buy a laptop with
>> an Nvidia chipset:
>>
>> http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/01/0142219
>>
>> I haven't bought anything but NV graphics cards for the last 5-6 years
>> though, so I'm not really sure what the comparable ATI chipsets would
>> be.
>
> So they have had a bad batch of chips.  Whatever.  It happens.  As long
> as they replace them without issue, I wouldn't worry about it.
>
> Good support when needed is better than bad support (which is what I
> think of ATI as having).
>
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