Future Haiku on future Notebooks

Forum thread started by Anonymous on Thu, 2006-07-20 16:06

Hullo there!

I plan to buy a new notebook by the end of the year. It's admittedly quite a ways off yet and probably too early to speculate on Haiku's future hardware compatibility, but I can't help but wondering...
What are the chances that Haiku will eventually run on such a system? Should one go with an onboard chipset (which will be IIRC i965); how's compatibility with the current Core-chipset i945? Or is a "seperate" GFX like some nvidea thingy the better choice; will future nvidea graphics still profit from Rudolf's driver?
I'm no gamer, so onboard graphics would be enough for me and probably be beneficient to battery life.

Any insights?
Thanks!

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Re: Future Haiku on future Notebooks

by umccullough - 2006-07-20 17:23
lichtgestalt wrote:
Hullo there!

I plan to buy a new notebook by the end of the year. It's admittedly quite a ways off yet and probably too early to speculate on Haiku's future hardware compatibility, but I can't help but wondering...
What are the chances that Haiku will eventually run on such a system? Should one go with an onboard chipset (which will be IIRC i965); how's compatibility with the current Core-chipset i945? Or is a "seperate" GFX like some nvidea thingy the better choice; will future nvidea graphics still profit from Rudolf's driver?
I'm no gamer, so onboard graphics would be enough for me and probably be beneficient to battery life.

Any insights?
Thanks!

First of all - with a notebook, you're pretty much limited to onboard graphics only ;) It's not like you can swap in an AGP card or anything.

Right now, the intel extreme driver only supports a couple chipsets like the i855/865 I believe. i915 and hig