Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Adrian C Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: New Dell Latitude for linux Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:20:15 +0100 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net o8NpvvyxaIctKfClvaoCFgVGFVbC3ciqM0OFXO7/Ukr0skSYq1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:edt3x7jymaRMjegt2Lql0H+N/lo= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:11884 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