Me <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2026-06-07 10:21, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm thinking of getting a refurbished Thinkpad P Series laptop to > > replace my existing Thinkpad T470. I want a larger screen as my eyes > > are getting older. Weight and size isn't a **huge** issue but I don't > > want anything a lot bigger. > > > > So, something like a P1 gen 4 would seem to fit my requirements but > > I'm a little wary of them nearly always having dual display hardware, > > Intel 'built-in' and Nvidia. > > > > Does anyone here have experience of installing Debian on one of these > > systems with Intel and Nvidia? > > > > Although in theory there should be Thinkpad P series with no Nvidia > > hardware (it is an option) I have yet to actually find one for sale. > > I have a P1 (20MD). There are only 2 "problems" with it: the fingerprint > reader never worked reliably, which I don't mind. And, like you wrote, > the display setup was weird. I never got any external display to work > consistently with it. Not with the FOSS driver and not with the > proprietary driver. One thing to note is that the wiring in my machine > is such that you can only use the non-Intel hardware to drive external > displays. The Intel hardware is just simply not connected to the port. I > know others have been successful in getting external displays to work > with newer P1's though. So, I would recommend looking for one that is a > bit more modern than mine is (March 2019, if I remember correctly). > Other than that I can tell you it is a great machine. I still love it, > even though I have a P16 Gen 2 next to it now. > Thanks, that's very useful.
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