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My now left over Asus PL30JT played pretty nice with bumblebee and Gentoo set-up though!
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I have often wondered why, when you have a MacBook Air or Pro that the Linux user doesn't run OS X as the host and Linux in a virtual machine? Can anyone explain why this setup isn't more mainstream among those that prefer Linux?
I can't really speak for anyone else, but I run Ubuntu on a MacPro as my desktop machine at work. I prefer Linux to OS X primarily because of the user interface. I know it's heresy, but I hate OS X's (and Windows, to be fair) UI. I've run XMonad for years and Ion for years before that and now any time I have to use a machine that doesn't have a tiling WM and sloppy focus, I kind of want to throw it out the window. (I…
Most computers with an Intel GPU are fine. The ThinkPad series is very popular and thus well-supported — note that I am only talking about the “original” series, i.e. ThinkPad X and T, e.g. the X230 or T430. Personally, I am running a ThinkPad X200 since 2008 with nearly no software problems.
Chromebook Pixel
How about a Samsung series 9? Has anybody on HN tested one of those? Searching around the net shows that there were small hw issues but they have been fixed in latest kernels.
my screen is huge, and my battery lasts for hours. I believe smaller screens do get better battery life.
If Bumblebee used to work, it's probably a config problem. I'd purge bumblebee and reinstall both it and the driver.
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Good as integrated GPUs maybe (as they can now accomplish more tasks), they are still an order of magnitude away from mid-range dedicated GPUs.
Sure, but we're talking about notebooks. Putting a mid-range dedicated GPU in a notebook would make it a mobile workstation (read: useless when not connected to a power source). The second, dedicated GPU in a 15" MacBook Pro isn't even mid-range while it does use a lot more power than the integrated GPU. For most tasks, integrated graphics work fine. On my MacBook Air, I use Final Cut Pro, AfterEffects and Blender. F…
Nvidia's GPU model numbers go from, at low end, X10, to, at the high end X90. X50 is right in the middle.
Sorry, I just had to leave a comment here, because I found my Nvidia integrated GPU in my 2009 13" Macbook Pro woefully inadequate for CUDA computation.
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I have often wondered why, when you have a MacBook Air or Pro that the Linux user doesn't run OS X as the host and Linux in a virtual machine? Can anyone explain why this setup isn't more mainstream among those that prefer Linux?
I can't really speak for anyone else, but I run Ubuntu on a MacPro as my desktop machine at work. I prefer Linux to OS X primarily because of the user interface. I know it's heresy, but I hate OS X's (and Windows, to be fair) UI. I've run XMonad for years and Ion for years before that and now any time I have to use a machine that doesn't have a tiling WM and sloppy focus, I kind of want to throw it out the window. (I…
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I have often wondered why, when you have a MacBook Air or Pro that the Linux user doesn't run OS X as the host and Linux in a virtual machine? Can anyone explain why this setup isn't more mainstream among those that prefer Linux?
I can't really speak for anyone else, but I run Ubuntu on a MacPro as my desktop machine at work. I prefer Linux to OS X primarily because of the user interface. I know it's heresy, but I hate OS X's (and Windows, to be fair) UI. I've run XMonad for years and Ion for years before that and now any time I have to use a machine that doesn't have a tiling WM and sloppy focus, I kind of want to throw it out the window. (I…
Xmonad for tiling OS X windows.
I run a Toshiba Portege Z930 with Linux Mint 14. The graphics card is not very powerfull (Intel HD Graphics 4000) but everything just works out of the box, including suspending and hibernation.
I have the same laptop then you and the same OS.
Unfortunately, I have two major problems: suspending/hibernation and 3G.
May I perhaps contact you directly by email? It would be nice if you could give me some hints.
Thank you in advance!