I have no recommendations for an Optimus laptop atm. If you want to make use of the discrete card, choose for laptops which have a BIOS option to choose for an Optimus setup or a discrete-only one. AFAIK, the Lenovo Thinkpad T520 is such a laptop. If you're shopping offline, you can always take a Live CD and try it yourself.
Regards, Lekensteyn On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Simon Sheehan <[email protected]>wrote: > I was particularly hoping to pick up on a decent boxing day sale today. > Are there any particular laptops you might recommend that support Bumblebee > and Optimus? I had particularly liked this machine for its features and > price. > > Is there any sort of list available of machines that fully support it? > > Thanks, > > Simon > > > > > On 2011-12-26, at 6:17 AM, Lekensteyn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gary, > > I've digged in your tables, have a look at > https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149#issuecomment-3273992 > > Regards, > Lekensteyn > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Gary Gatling <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My suggestion is do not buy a lenovo ideapad yet. >> >> https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/53 >> >> https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/issues/149 >> >> https://github.com/MrMEEE/ironhide/issues/100 >> >> Does not work at all with nvidia chip. I have a ideapad y470 but >> reportedly it does not work even with nouveau drivers with Bumblebee. >> Since nouveau doesn't even work on a Y470, Lenovo must be doing some really >> weird stuff internally. Avoid like the plague. >> >> I have not seen anyone have success yet with an ideapad and post about it >> on the web somewhere. I would be SOOO happy to be proven wrong about this >> however. :) >> >> >> http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Optimus-in-Linux-Ideapad-Y570/td-p/490107 >> >> >> http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Y570-There-are-no-drivers-for-GF-555-M-graphic-card/td-p/615631 >> >> >> http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Nvidia-driver-for-Y570/td-p/467713 >> >> https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee/issues/366 >> >> Hope that helps. Cheers, >> >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Simon Sheehan <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, I was looking at purchasing a Lenovo Ideapad Y570. It >>> appears to have Optimus, with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 1GB. >>> >>> My friend has the same card, but on a Dell XPS 17. I wanted to confirm >>> this would work on this Lenovo Model, before purchasing it and attempting >>> to run GNU/Linux with the Optimus technology. Has anyone been able to >>> confirm such findings? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >
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