Comments on: Apple Updates Its Entire Line of Notebooks http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/14/apple-updates-its-entire-line-of-notebooks/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:46:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mackenzie http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/14/apple-updates-its-entire-line-of-notebooks/#comment-111201 Mackenzie Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:32:39 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6306#comment-111201 I heard one Linux user say they definitely were not getting a new MacBook because it'd have Nvidia junk. I personally only get Intel graphics because ATI and Nvidia both only have closed source drivers that require jumping through hoops with every kernel upgrade (Ubuntu automatically updates them for you if you use their packaged ones, but if you install a newer version from nvidia.com you're on your own) and then only work rather half-arsedly anyway...they have a tendency to write drivers that don't actually play nice with Linux so that Nvidia and ATI on their own can be the sole cause of your lack of working suspend/hibernate/resume. Dual screen Nvidia is harder to set up than dual-screen ATI, but even that is bad compared to using Intel. Contrary to that, Intel Just Works. Want Compiz? It just works. Plug in an external projector? It just works. I heard one Linux user say they definitely were not getting a new MacBook because it’d have Nvidia junk. I personally only get Intel graphics because ATI and Nvidia both only have closed source drivers that require jumping through hoops with every kernel upgrade (Ubuntu automatically updates them for you if you use their packaged ones, but if you install a newer version from nvidia.com you’re on your own) and then only work rather half-arsedly anyway…they have a tendency to write drivers that don’t actually play nice with Linux so that Nvidia and ATI on their own can be the sole cause of your lack of working suspend/hibernate/resume. Dual screen Nvidia is harder to set up than dual-screen ATI, but even that is bad compared to using Intel.

Contrary to that, Intel Just Works. Want Compiz? It just works. Plug in an external projector? It just works.

]]> By: Andrei Buiu http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/14/apple-updates-its-entire-line-of-notebooks/#comment-111027 Andrei Buiu Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:10:06 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6306#comment-111027 I don't like the black keyboard :| I don’t like the black keyboard :|

]]> By: Sickles http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/14/apple-updates-its-entire-line-of-notebooks/#comment-111000 Sickles Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:14:33 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6306#comment-111000 Sure... NOW they decide to use nVidia instead of Intel's junk... Sure… NOW they decide to use nVidia instead of Intel’s junk…

]]> By: Mackenzie http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/10/14/apple-updates-its-entire-line-of-notebooks/#comment-110997 Mackenzie Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:49:24 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=6306#comment-110997 With the black keyboard and the glass-to-the-edge thing on the screen, Apple seems to be copying HP's style. With the black keyboard and the glass-to-the-edge thing on the screen, Apple seems to be copying HP’s style.

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