On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:10 PM, James Pluck <papabearnz@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What I have suggested so far is
> * minimum 2 GB ram (preferably 3 GB+)
> * Nvidia GPU (around the level of 8600GT 512 I was guessing)

I would suggest ATI card at present as they have open sourced spec. If
you use Nvidia you are at the whim of them to keep producing binary
drivers. It might work for this version of Ubuntu but that doesn't
mean it will work in 2 years time on some not yet invented distro...

Ahh - I forgot about that. It's a good point.

If I go with ATI for the video would I be well advised to match with an ATI chipset mainboard? Will it cause a "noticeable" conflict (subjective - The technology increase will be a very major jump for my friend from what he has) if I specify an Nvidia based mainboard?

Along with that - slightly tangental - would it be worthwhile at this stage to install a 64 bit distro over a 32 bit distro (Most probably we'll be installing Ubuntu as he is familiar with that distro having run it on his p4 for the last year.)?

J
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