Chris Knadle wrote: > A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine went to order a > Lenovo T61p to find that Lenovo no longer shipped them. > Now they seem to have dropped the T61 altogether. More > than that, it seems like all of the newer models with > discrete graphics seem to be ATI graphics rather than > Nvidia. I assume that all of this is due to the recent > problems with Nvidia chips overheating, but I don't > know that for sure. > > Anybody know more about it?
I don't, but I was told by a friend that the Intel graphics adapter in
the most lenovo line that comes after the T61 (T400 I think) actually
does reasonable 3D acceleration under Linux. I can dig out the
specifics if you are interested.
-Sean
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