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_tggb on July 28, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple ditches NVIDIA, goes with ATI for their desk...

As long as you don't need 3D acceleration, they are the best choice.

That is a pretty big thing to be missing.

alf on July 28, 2010 [–]

This makes it pretty pointless to have discrete ATI graphics under Linux. I have an integrated ATI graphics card in my desktop and discrete ATI graphics card in my laptop. They both have the same use cases; they can handle basic desktop functionalities (which is a huge step from fglrx) but not any serious 3d.

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