Any experience with ThinkPad T420/T520

[Kevin Oberman]

> Sender: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net>
> From: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org>
> 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". 
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