Re: New Dell Latitude for linux

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From	Adrian C <email@here.invalid>
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Subject	Re: New Dell Latitude for linux
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On 02/09/14 20:22, ray carter wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:42:11 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:
>
>> [uk.d-i-y because there are just as many people there who might have an
>> opinion on this]
>>
>>
>> What would you choose:
>>
>> Dell E6440, i5-5310M with Radeon HD8690M graphics but only 802.11a/b/g/n
>> WIFI
>>
>> or
>>
>> Dell E7740, i5-4310U with Intel HD 4400 Haswell graphics with
>> 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WIFI
>>
>>
>
> My preference would be the Intel graphics machine. The Intel graphics is
> very well supported.
>
+1

Both actually have Intel graphics, the E6440 here is a hybrid graphics 
model featuring both Intel HD 4600 & AMD HD8690M.

The HD8690M is supported by an AMD driver, but AMD doesn't show support 
further than Ubuntu 14.04 AFAICS but that may change.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/Latest-LINUX-Beta-Driver.aspx

So someone here is having fun ...

"Angry At wits end with Dell Inspiron/AMD Radeon HD 8670M"
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2204332

Currently these users end up running the Intel graphics.

-- 
Adrian C

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New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 18:42 +0100
  Re: New Dell Latitude for linux The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-02 19:03 +0100
  Re: New Dell Latitude for linux ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2014-09-02 19:22 +0000
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 21:04 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 09:00 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 10:19 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-09-02 15:09 -0500
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2014-09-02 21:20 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 21:37 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-09-03 03:01 +0000
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 08:35 +0100
  Re: New Dell Latitude for linux chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 21:21 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-02 21:52 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2014-09-03 08:57 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 10:17 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 17:27 +0100
          Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2014-09-04 12:58 +0100
            Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-04 13:04 +0100
    Re: New Dell Latitude for linux tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> - 2014-09-03 08:36 +0100
      Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-09-03 08:46 +0100
        Re: New Dell Latitude for linux tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> - 2014-09-03 12:13 +0100
          Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2014-09-03 12:35 +0100

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