Choosing a Dell Laptop

[liqor_mortis]

Having decided to put my money where my mouth is, I'm currently choosing options on a Dell Inspiron laptop with ubuntu installed.

My question is this: Dell offer two graphics options, either the intel GMA 950 or the nvidia Go 7300, and I'm not sure which to choose. The nvidia option carries a $79 premium.

Given that this laptop will be used for mainly office tasks with beryl/compiz active, does the nv chipset offer any real advantages?

Thanks for any and all advice.

[Michael]

The NVIDIA option will provide slightly better performance... Though if you're just doing desktop office tasks with Beryl/Compiz you should be able to get by fine with the Intel GMA 950.

[liqor_mortis]

Thanks for the speedy reply. Seems like an easy decision, proper open source drivers too!

[Svartalf]

Indeed. Just don't expect the GMA950 to do a lot of fancy things- the machine doesn't have vertex processing on the GPU, relying on the CPU to do that sort of work, which it doesn't do anywhere near as well.

[tekmate]

If you want to play games go Nvidia I have used laptops with the 950 and Penguin Racer is as hard core as you can get even with a dual core and a gig of ram.