Marius Roets wrote:
One thing I forgot to mention. This is not related to the processor as such, but more to laptops in general, if you are thinking of getting a widescreen that is. I have found that there is no support for widescreen resolutions in Suse , or at least there wasn't for mine (I don't know enough to say whether this is a kernel, xorg or sax2 problem). So if you are getting a widescreen, make sure the video chipset has a linux driver available. My Acer has an ATI X1400 card, and the linux driver for that is working very well. ATI releases a new linux driver every month or so, and the support for new chipsets are added with each. I don't know if NVidia is also as supportive of their linux customers.
This is patently false. I've used SuSE on two different widescreen laptops. I'm typing this from a Dell XPS at 1920x1200. It has nothing to do with the graphics driver, you just need to select the proper screen in Sax2 or xorg.conf. (And Nvidia has *MUCH* better linux support than ATI)