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[Eric Appleman <erappleman@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/25/2011 07:28 PM, Simon Sheehan 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?
>
>
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Don't get the Y570!

The 555M inside is actually a 550M GPU with GDDR5 memory. It performs 
far below any of the other 555M variants since it only has 96 cores as 
opposed to the expected 144.

That being said, the laptop is well-supported by Bumblebee.

Eric
Bumblebee Project