[OT] Buying a new computer

[Oron Peled]

On Monday, 11 בOctober 2010 18:15:54 geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> The Intel onboard graphics chipsets are perfectly fine for normal use.  
> They seem to be much better than the other onboard graphics chipsets  
> of 10 years ago. They are not really accelerated graphics devices, if  
> you want something to display windows on your screen, with stationary  
> graphics or text, play videos (using the CPU to decode the compressed  
> video) etc, they are fine.

Agreed. Just a warning -- beware of GMA-500, GMA-600. They are usually
present on netbooks and since Intel made the mistake of buying
the design from 3'rd party -- these drivers are proprietary, horrible,
buggy etc.

All other Intel graphic chipsets (X3xxx, X4xxx) are best choice for Linux
desktop use -- FOSS drivers, updated regularly upstream, etc.

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