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[Simon Sheehan <sheehan.simon19@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <lekensteyn@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <gsgatlin@xxxxxxxx> 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 <sheehan.simon19@xxxxxxxxx> 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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