Howcome some Bonobo and Pangolin Performance have ati graphics?

[ubuntuman001]

nVidia drivers are much smoother and easy-going with linux, why did you decide to install ati chipsets on these two laptops?

[crichell]

They're great laptops and we get the same performance out of them as we do nVidia chips. I think ATI's control panel is better too. For nVidia we use YANC which is full featured and works well but I would prefer something from nVidia.

I know a lot of people in the community prefer nVidia. I'm not sure why though. Maybe becuase nVidia supported Linux first or their drivers were better and easier to install in the beginning.

[ubuntuman001]

They're great laptops and we get the same performance out of them as we do nVidia chips. I think ATI's control panel is better too. For nVidia we use YANC which is full featured and works well but I would prefer something from nVidia.

I know a lot of people in the community prefer nVidia. I'm not sure why though. Maybe becuase nVidia supported Linux first or their drivers were better and easier to install in the beginning.well it's just that, if you read around the forums, if you see any nvidia vs ati threads, nvidia gets like 99.99% of the votes, while ati gets 0.01%. people's argument is always that "nvidia makes better drivers for linux than ati, the ati drivers just suck."

i personally don't agree with those rash and cconservative people, that think that ati hasn't eveolved since their beginning days. i personally have an ati card, and i got xgl/compiz to work perfectly, with the fglrx driver in the repos.

so, i stand by your decision, crichell :cool:

[ubuntuman001]

well it's just that, if you read around the forums, if you see any nvidia vs ati threads, nvidia gets like 99.99% of the votes, while ati gets 0.01%. people's argument is always that "nvidia makes better drivers for linux than ati, the ati drivers just suck."

i personally don't agree with those rash and conservative people, that think that ati hasn't evolved since their beginning days. i personally have an ati card, and i got xgl/compiz to work perfectly, with the fglrx driver in the repos.

so it's not that i'm criticising your decision, i was just noting how a lot of people on these forums might go shopping on your site, and they'll go like: "oh man, check out this bonobo laptop, its amazing...oh wait, it has ati graphics, and from what i've read on the ubuntu forums, ati and linux dont go together, so forget that piece of crap"

either way, i stand by your decision, crichell :cool:

[ubuntuman001]

man, whatsup with this sub-forum, it wont let me edit my own posts! thats why it looks like i replied twice, but the second post is actually an edit

[jdong]

In my opinion, on laptops ATI is a better choice than NVidia because ATI drivers support more features. Namely, first of all it lets you change the clock speed of the GPU (aticonfig --lsp, aticonfig --set-powerstate), which on my Core Duo / radeon x1400 can gain me an extra hour of battery life. Second of all, aticonfig and the firegl control panel allows me to hot-enable the VGA/DVI-out ports without going into xorg.conf and restarting my X server.

ATI drivers have gotten quite a bit better recently, and I don't see good reason to swear by nvidia and boycott ATI products.