FreeBSD on Dell Studio 15

[Thomas Donnelly]

Aditya Sarawgi wrote:
> I'm getting Dell Studio 15 and Dell Vostro 1510 (same config) in around the same price. The main 
> difference being Studio 15 has a ATI radeon HD 4570 and Vostro 1510 has nvidia 8400 GS. So for which one 
> should I go for ?
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The nVidia proprietary driver is much further along so if you want fast 
3d support out of the box, the Vostro will be a better choice. In the 
future, ATi may be a better driver due to them beginning to help the 
FreeBSD community out with developing a functioning 3d driver. One thing 
to note is the nVidia driver is 32bit only so if you ever want to use 
the full 4 gigs or more of ram, you wont be able to with 3d 
acceleration. The ATi open source driver is further along that the open 
source nVidia so that is something also to take in the consideration.

I have hear the build quality on the Studios is very nice, but the 
Vostro is a small business class laptop and is fairly well built from 
personal experience.

In the end, I would likely go with the Vostro for the better 3d support.


-=Tom