[Lilug] Recommend nvidia card

[Kenneth Downs]

Peter Capazzi wrote:
> 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

well I'm actually switching back to desktop box for daily development, 
and hence the post, because I have to put a 2nd card into the box, or a 
dual-head card.

But w/respect to battery life, speaking from many plane trips, the 
backlight seems to be the #1 killer.



>
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>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:34 AM, "Kenneth Downs" <ken at secdat.com 
> <mailto:ken at secdat.com>> wrote:
>
>> Brett Viren wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Kenneth Downs <ken at secdat.com <mailto: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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