Notebook

Hi there,

i´m thinking about a new notebook - and a little bit SL would be great.

Has anyone expirience with actuall Dell (esp. Latitude) or Toshiba notebooks for business use with good support for SL ?

actual i´m using a Dell Latidue 810 (2 years), wich is quite fine with ATI graphics. could be improvent in client FPS, however.

i have especialy no idea bout the following graphic cards:
nVidia® Quadro® FX 360M3
nVidia Quadro NVS 135M
nVidia Quadro NVS 140M

What about driver update with nvidia on vista using dell ? with ati it was not possible (because oem driver by dell, never updatet) unless you do a little bit patching on drivers


cheers
Ralf

I might be wrong, but I think this is the wrong forum for this post.

There was a long post on the blog not too long ago that listed performance characteristics for a lot of 3D cards. Go take a look.

http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/11/15/typical-frame-rate-performance-by-graphics-cardgpu/#more-1388

My laptop has a geforce go 7600, and I usually get 10-20 fps at the ultra high quality setting.

you are


anywho, as lee suggested look at the 3d video card info, Quadro's are generally used for non realtime applications, cad, 3d modeling, whatever and usually do not perform nearly as well as a gaming card (your usual suspects)

and to top things off the NVS series is a really cheap, low featured, slow "poor mans" Quadro, a half decent model would run you about a grand by itself


i seriously would not reccomend dealing with these things (and the ati fireGL) if your planning on doing anything with SL