Tablets with real video cards?
I'm more an AMD man than an Intel man on the desktop, but I'm not willing to go that route on a laptop. That said, though, I am also highly unwilling to buy anything with an Intel/S3/VIA GPU as I may be stuck w/o my gaming rig in the near future. Can anyone recommend a tabletpc w/nvidia gpu & Intel proc that's actually available in US markets? I can't find anything at all, which seems just nuts to me. -Sean
On Sunday 20 January 2008, cragos@gmail.com wrote:
I'm more an AMD man than an Intel man on the desktop, but I'm not willing to go that route on a laptop. That said, though, I am also highly unwilling to buy anything with an Intel/S3/VIA GPU as I may be stuck w/o my gaming rig in the near future. Can anyone recommend a tabletpc w/nvidia gpu & Intel proc that's actually available in US markets? I can't find anything at all, which seems just nuts to me.
Intel GPU is the best for Linux right now, with AMD/ATi playing catchup. nVidia's still stuck in 2D land, as far as a free OS goes.
In all seriousness, Intel's graphics chips have an excellent driver available for them (the new "intel" driver as opposed to the older "i810") that can even do a subset of accelerated 3D rendering with some nicety. They also have the advantage of being low-power. One of the really awesome things about using an Intel graphics chip on a laptop is the xrandr 1.2 support which pretty much guarantees that you'll be able to plug your laptop in to a projector and have it "just work". On 1/20/08, cragos@gmail.com <cragos@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm more an AMD man than an Intel man on the desktop, but I'm not willing to go that route on a laptop. That said, though, I am also highly unwilling to buy anything with an Intel/S3/VIA GPU as I may be stuck w/o my gaming rig in the near future. Can anyone recommend a tabletpc w/nvidia gpu & Intel proc that's actually available in US markets? I can't find anything at all, which seems just nuts to me.
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Intel's graphic chips are not going to cut it on games. They're okay for older stuff and gee whiz 3d desktop effects, but don't expect anything close to nvidia / amd performance at texture and geometry intensive games. The open drivers are nice, certainly. But I promise you, the cost of a gaming rig and a tablet is less than the cost of a gaming rig tablet. Justin Dugger On Jan 31, 2008 4:29 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com> wrote:
In all seriousness, Intel's graphics chips have an excellent driver available for them (the new "intel" driver as opposed to the older "i810") that can even do a subset of accelerated 3D rendering with some nicety. They also have the advantage of being low-power. One of the really awesome things about using an Intel graphics chip on a laptop is the xrandr 1.2 support which pretty much guarantees that you'll be able to plug your laptop in to a projector and have it "just work".
On 1/20/08, cragos@gmail.com <cragos@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm more an AMD man than an Intel man on the desktop, but I'm not willing to go that route on a laptop. That said, though, I am also highly unwilling to buy anything with an Intel/S3/VIA GPU as I may be stuck w/o my gaming rig in the near future. Can anyone recommend a tabletpc w/nvidia gpu & Intel proc that's actually available in US markets? I can't find anything at all, which seems just nuts to me.
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Well, I'm not looking for a whole lot. I'd probably settle for a Nvidia Geforce 6100 or the like - More concerned about being able to play Civ4 or StarCraft2 without setting 'em to ASCII-art mode than getting my FPSes on. I'd buy this in a heartbeat if it were available stateside: http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=799 Unfortunately, though, the Koreans have dubbed us unworthy. Anyone got a similar recommendation that actually can be had? -Sean On Feb 4, 2008 5:39 AM, Justin Dugger <jldugger@gmail.com> wrote:
Intel's graphic chips are not going to cut it on games. They're okay for older stuff and gee whiz 3d desktop effects, but don't expect anything close to nvidia / amd performance at texture and geometry intensive games. The open drivers are nice, certainly. But I promise you, the cost of a gaming rig and a tablet is less than the cost of a gaming rig tablet.
Justin Dugger
On Jan 31, 2008 4:29 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com> wrote:
In all seriousness, Intel's graphics chips have an excellent driver available for them (the new "intel" driver as opposed to the older "i810") that can even do a subset of accelerated 3D rendering with some nicety. They also have the advantage of being low-power. One of the really awesome things about using an Intel graphics chip on a laptop is the xrandr 1.2 support which pretty much guarantees that you'll be able to plug your laptop in to a projector and have it "just work".
On 1/20/08, cragos@gmail.com <cragos@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm more an AMD man than an Intel man on the desktop, but I'm not willing to go that route on a laptop. That said, though, I am also highly unwilling to buy anything with an Intel/S3/VIA GPU as I may be stuck w/o my gaming rig in the near future. Can anyone recommend a tabletpc w/nvidia gpu & Intel proc that's actually available in US markets? I can't find anything at all, which seems just nuts to me.
-Sean _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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Can you play older games like Quake 1,2,3, Unreal 2004, Half-Life, Freeciv on the Intel? -----Original Message----- From: Justin Dugger Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 4:39 AM Intel's graphic chips are not going to cut it on games. They're okay for older stuff and gee whiz 3d desktop effects, but don't expect anything close to nvidia / amd performance at texture and geometry intensive games. The open drivers are nice, certainly. But I promise you, the cost of a gaming rig and a tablet is less than the cost of a gaming rig tablet. Justin Dugger On Jan 31, 2008 4:29 PM, Jason D. Clinton <me@jasonclinton.com> wrote:
In all seriousness, Intel's graphics chips have an excellent driver available for them (the new "intel" driver as opposed to the older "i810") that can even do a subset of accelerated 3D rendering with some nicety. They also have the advantage of being low-power. One of the really awesome things about using an Intel graphics chip on a laptop is the xrandr 1.2 support which pretty much guarantees that you'll be able to plug your laptop in to a projector and have it "just work".
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