Hi-res refurb Dell laptop. Comments?

[Tyler Aviss]

My main concern was whether the old GPU will work on newer distro's/kernels
(with the nvidia driver)
On Aug 4, 2012 11:29 PM, "charles chris" <cccharlz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> Hey LUG'ers,
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>> I've currently got an Asus laptop. Beautiful power with a Core i7, 8GB
>> of RAM, etc.
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>> However, I've been doing a lot of dev work lately, and the one falling
>> point I've run into is that 1366x768 isn't a lot of real-estate
>> screen-size
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>> I started looking at what's available for larger screens, and noticed
>> this little guy with a 1920x1200 native LCD resolution.
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>> http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200599&Tpk=M6300
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>> Obviously it's a bit older and the Core2 probably isn't going to keep
>> up with my i7, but according to here the Linux compatibility is good:
>>   http://www.linlap.com/wiki/dell+precision+m6300
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>>
>> Anyone have one of these and/or know how well it performs on a recent
>> linux distro? At $267 the price is quite nice...
>>
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