Re: Beware new laptops
- From: "R. P." <r_pol12gar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:32:53 -0700
"John Rivers" <first10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are two things which make buying a laptop today VERY RISKY
- nearly all manufacturers only supply (and support) vista drivers
- this means you have no downgrade path in the event of problems
with applications
- gpu drivers for nvidia and ati mobile gpus are ONLY available via
the *laptop manufacturer*
- this means driver updates will be delayed and infrequent
- this means updates will STOP when the manufacturer wishes
these two facts mean buying a laptop today is not a good idea
my current pentium m laptop has up-to-date drivers for all components
downloaded
straight from the component manufacturer
this will not be possible with the current generation of laptops
because of this I have cancelled my plans to buy a $2000 laptop this
month
Yes, but not everybody can be without a laptop, so what are they to do? Laptops always had some manufacturer supported drivers and probably always will.
R. P.
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