Intel graphics

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 16:44 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Hey, you know what? I got a new replacement desktop for 365USD (no 
> > monitor) and it came with AMD/ATI graphics. Intel is not the cheap 
> > solution, it is the crappy solution. Yeah, it comes with open source 
> > drivers but I don't care. It is stability and performance that I care about.
> 
> Can't argue with you there. The only thing that was going for intel was 
> the good linux support without needing binary blobs, but this seems to 
> be going backwards now.

> The new integrated video chipsets from nvidia blow intel out the water. 
> Going to see a lot of these in the cheaper end of the market not too soon.

FWIW, from what I've seen Jaunty picked the worst possible time for
Intel - It was pretty good, but they had to blow up parts of it and
start over, so there's been lots of churn and issues but it should all
improve rapidly from here on out.  or so they say :-)

Brian
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