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: Tim Watts 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 21:04:13 +0100 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 5Zs0volpRD7pyGhpYB0g1QJ+T4qkof9T4vIix/a16ixgHove+m X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:vBiGdOcAk8cW1vM54EuEitDnVhU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:11882 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. > Really - I'm glad to hear that. My Lenovo with Intel graphics caused me a few problems because Linux could not support 3D acceleration on it.