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Discussing desktops at the Collaboration SummitDiscussing desktops at the Collaboration SummitPosted Apr 9, 2008 15:21 UTC (Wed) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)Parent article: Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit
If Lenovo is asking for Linux-friendly components from their component vendors, then maybe they should drop the nVidia GPUs they started using recently, and go back to the "either ATI or Intel" choice we used to have on ThinkPads? The nVidia mobile GPUs are power hogs (when compared to ATI mobile GPUs and Intel mobile GPUs), and have no free drivers or any sort of open documentation. We can't even "always choose the Intel GPU ThinkPads", because you can't get ThinkPads with both the best displays and Intel GPUs (the displays would work, but Lenovo doesn't sell that combination).
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Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 9, 2008 15:49 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] That's the single reason why I do not own a Thinkpad: I couldn't get a decent resolution display (1680x1050) _and_ free driver supported Intel graphics. According to Lenovo there are performance problems with Intel chipsets and high resolutions. So instead my money went to Dell where I got a display with even higher resolution (1920x1200) and Intel graphics and it performs extremely well.
Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 9, 2008 16:11 UTC (Wed) by rossburton (subscriber, #7254) [Link] The Lenovo web site loves hiding the full list of ThinkPads, but I've seen T series ThinkPads with what you want for some time. How about this: http://www5.pc.ibm.com/uk/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/... T61, Intel graphics, 1680x1050, even comes with SUSE.
Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 9, 2008 23:15 UTC (Wed) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link] This is actually the UK IBM website... If you go to the lenovo website the T-series notebooks are all sold with microsoft, no option for linux. As per usual... http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/Lenov... However, if you search for "linux T61" you get redirected to an IBM web site with linux SKU's. Weird. I do know that there are SKU's for linux lenovo notebooks, but I don't see them on the main lenovo site.
Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 9, 2008 23:39 UTC (Wed) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link] oops. I am wrong: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/Lenov...
Holy cow! Posted Apr 9, 2008 16:56 UTC (Wed) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] Out of curiosity, I just did a check of the US T61 configuration page and found that they are now selling T61's with Linux! In fact, the Linux T61's are the cheapest ones you can buy ($100 cheaper than the Vista models). And they have WXGA+ screen options for both the 14" and 15" models. Perhaps this isn't news to everyone else, but while I knew Lenovo was selling Linux powered models, I had absolutely no idea that they were selling so many of them, from such a prominent place on their products page, and that you could configure them just like the Windows ones. This is even better than Dell, which hides their Linux machines on a special page behind a easy to miss "Open source PCs" link. Now I am pissed that I had to pay for yet another useless copy of Vista just 5 months ago when I got my T61.
Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 10, 2008 20:39 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] As far as I know, there are problems with BIOS configuration, high resolution, and Lenovo. It's only recently that the Intel drivers stopped caring about what the BIOS thinks about your resolution.
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