Re: tlug: Sony Vaio

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > The XBF-Neomagic server will deal with it.  The non-accelerated
> > reverse-engineered driver in TLJ's SVGA server will also deal with it,
> > albeit not as well. 
> 
> Buying a product that uses the Neomagic chip makes Neomagic happy.  They
> won't see any advantage to releasing programming specs if people buy the
> equipment anyway.  This is XFree86's main objection to that RE'd Neomagic
> driver.
> 
> We want to punish the companies that aren't nice to us, and reward the
> companies that are ;)
> 
> > Better yet, get a different notebook that uses a C&T chipset :)
> 
> Agreed.

I wouldn't personally buy a notebook with the NM chip in it.  Nor would I
buy a Panasonic Let's Note, even if it had a different video chip.  Why?
I think Jonathan put it best when he said, "The 'e' at the end was a
mistake - it should be, "Let's Not"".

Cliff's machine sometimes needs resetting (not sure if it's still doing
that), and Jonathan's friend Hiromi has one where the functionality of the
'Fn' key is REVERSED - ie you have to hold it down to get the letters on
the keys that also map to the number pad. :)  And they ship a flakey
PCMCIA IDE card for their CD drives.  hmph.

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