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Lenovo’s ThinkPad 25 anniversary edition laptop leaks
- sevagh 9y ago16:9? Not classic. Nvidia graphics? Not good for Linux users. Pass.
- jimmies 9y agoThe NVidia graphics one might just be an option.
- Buttons840 9y agoIt says it's based on the T470. I thought T470s worked well with Linux?
- sevagh 9y agoYeah it does, I have Linux on a T460 and T470. It's just with Nvidia graphics, there's the whole Optimus/Bumblebee mess to deal with (unless that's improved recently?) Intel graphics are way more Linux-friendly OOTB.
- whatsinaname22 9y agoIt's not perfect, but I switched my main distro a few months ago and the proprietary Nvidia drivers are still a little bit of a pain to install, but totally doable, and work great. The non proprietary nouveau drivers still have trouble interfacing with my card, but looked better than on my last install about a year ago, so baby steps.
- mikejmoffitt 9y agoNvidia graphics with the actual binary drivers are great for Linux users. What are you talking about? Plus, this is a modern Intel-based laptop, so I'd strongly bet that it's implemented with Optimus and therefore has Intel graphics driving the display and ports, just like on the T460p.
- yellowapple 9y ago"Nvidia graphics with the actual binary drivers are great for Linux users." The binary drivers are pretty invasive (they replace quite a few libraries and such, if I'm remembering right from when I originally setup my current gaming rig), and they were really slow to support KMS and Wayland (but apparently that's changed within the last year or so). Nvidia is also typically a showstopper for non-Linux free operating systems (like, say, OpenBSD) which tend to not have any possibility for Nvidia-provided binary drivers. Considering that the safe bet for OpenBSD is basically "buy a ThinkPad", a "retro" ThinkPad with Nvidia graphics is kind of a downer. Meanwhile, my ordinary T470 with Intel graphics works reasonably well (suspend/resume aside, but I can live without that) on OpenBSD's -CURRENT branch, so if this "retro" ThinkPad is just a T470 with Nvidia graphics and a non-chiclet keyboard, then it ain't like there's much reason for me to really want it.
- bubblethink 9y ago>Nvidia graphics with the actual binary drivers are great for Linux users. What are you talking about? Not by a long shot, particularly on laptops. Avoid optimus and nvidia like the plague. Battery drain, screen tearing, and other fun problems abound.
- danbolt 9y agoI'm in the line for a new laptop soon, and this is really enticing!
- bifrost 9y agoLooks like the image of the laptop is photoshopped, the keyboard is "wrong". IE: its the old and more popular keyboard.
- mikejmoffitt 9y agoI can't tell if this is a troll post or if you are being obtuse, considering what this laptop is called.
- bubblethink 9y agoThis is generally considered to be quite a letdown based on the leaks. The only thing retro about it is the old style keyboard. They slapped the old keyboard on a T470 from the looks of it, which doesn't quite warrant all the hype they drummed up. They ran a series of surveys and blogs.
- lsiebert 9y agomy first thought was that it was leaking data to the company. Lenovo's reporting home or doing other BS seems to be something I've seen quite a bit of.
- crsv 9y agoWell it looks like it's 25 years old, so they've got that going for them.