[Lilug] Recommend nvidia card

[Peter Capazzi]

Assuming full effects are on... Would battery life benefit from intel  
over nvidia? I bought a dell 1330 with nvidia (amd love it) but also  
wondered if Having Intel graphics card and a 5500 intel cpu instead of  
7500 would give noticable increase in battery life

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On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:34 AM, "Kenneth Downs" <ken at secdat.com> wrote:

> Brett Viren wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> i'm looking for the cheapest nvidia card that will be very happy  
>>> with Ubuntu
>>> and the fancy desktop nonsense^H^H^H^H^H effects.
>>>
>> Does anyone continue to use compiz fusion after the initial play time
>> is over?  I worked so hard to get that working the first time and
>> played with it for about 10 minutes before I just lost the point and
>> went back to the beloved sawfish.
>>
>
> Actually I enjoy it with a minimum of effects.  Some of them like  
> wiggly windows are good for giggles, but i find the fade-ins and  
> shadowing very nice.
>
>>
>>> Any recommendations?
>>>
>> Intel video card.  Cheaper and don't need proprietary drivers.  My
>> laptop has one and the free drivers allow full support for wobbly
>> windows and the other funky effects.
>>
>
> AHA!  The world keeps changing around me.  I will look into the  
> Intel solution.
>
>> -Brett.
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