Some new notebooks from Lenovo (and others I expect) have two graphics adapters, one of which is used on battery and the other when plugged in. The adapter can also be chosen via a hot key (at least in Windows). The machines I've read about with this include the T500 and W500 from Lenovo. The following is from a pdf file describing the T400/T500:
Graphics Integrated Intel X4500 T400: ATI Mobile Radeon HD 3470 w/256 MB Switchable Graphics T500: ATI Mobile Radeon HD 3650 w/256 MB Switchable Graphics The W500 has an ATI FireGL M86-GL (512 GB) and the W700 has a Nvidia Quadro FX-2700 (512) or a FX-3700 with 1 GB of video RAM. They also have "Display Port" as the video output rather than DVI but do have VGA also. I wonder if this type of thing would work in Xorg in Solaris or Nevada? Another upside of these machines is that they are supposed to support up to 8 GB of RAM in a notebook. Some other Dell and HP notebooks also list 8 GB as a possibility. Any problems with that much RAM in a Solaris notebook with dual-core Intel CPUs? [the W700 is supposed to be available quad-core at some point but I don't think it will be very affordable with quad-core, 8 GB, and the FX-3700 and dual hard drives and 17" 1920x1200 with 400 nit LED backlight :-) Stuart This message posted from opensolaris.org
