>>>>> "JPL" == John P Looney <john at antefacto.com> writes:
JPL> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 03:16:18PM +0100, Paul J Collins mentioned:
>> Playing derivative proprietary FPS games at high frame rates is
>> not a requirement for my "main machine". In fact, 3D isn't,
>> full stop. My requirements are more along the lines of plenty
>> of disk and RAM and a nice screen. CPU is less important; I
>> won't be building Mozilla on this thing. Not often, anyway.
JPL> Then go with nVidia - the 2D is excellent with the free
JPL> driver.
But it requires proprietary software for some of its functionality.
No thanks. True, I may not use 3D now, but I don't want to exclude
the possibility of using it in the future.
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