Re: Any experience with ThinkPad T420/T520
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> Sender: Bernhard Schmidt <[email protected]> > From: Bernhard Schmidt <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 09:15:53 +0200 > > On Sunday, May 29, 2011 18:53:43 Kevin Oberman wrote: > > I'm about to order new laptop and I am looking at a Lenovo ThinkPad > > T520. Does anyone have experience with this model? Anything that should > > cause alarm? I plan on getting the nVidia 4200N graphics which should > > work with the nVidia driver. > > What's the current state of "Optimus" support? Last time I've > checked the NVIDIA driver had no support for that so you might > be stuck with the Intel GPU. > > -- > Bernhard > Ouch! That would be a bummer. Thanks for the heads-up. I have been worried about the video issue, but I have not followed it closely enough to realize the significance of "Optimus". -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"