Compatibility Lenovo P52

[fran...@vfemail.net]

Hi,
since my last Laptop broke, i am going to buy a new one.
I want one with a fast processor and 32+ GGB RAM.
I took a look at the P52, but did not find any HCL report for it.
So my Question is:
- Did anyone try the P52?
- Are there problems / thinks i have to be careful about?

Processor: i7-8750H HexaCore (2.20 bis 4.10 GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA® Quadro® P1000M

Thanks for any information and best regards
-frank


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Hi Frank,

considered to take an X1 Extreme?
It will be upgradable to upto 64GB of RAM nd powered by an i7 too - don't know which exactly atm, but you may want to have a look here:

https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/ThinkPad-X1-Extreme/p/22TP2TXX1E1

cheers,
Jonny

[David Schissler]

Oh yeah, the X1E is going to be a super popular model. I hope that they made it correctly and enough of them.

[Eric Duncan]

Just off the bat, the biggest concern is that dGPU: you can't turn it off in the bios (as ithet Thinkpad users have reported on /r/thinkpad).

I just ordered the Thinkpad P1 myself, which is the same as the X1 Extreme just with ECC and Xeon.

I specifically got it for its 32GB ECC ram for stability, quadro for some light modelling and hex core. I've been using Qubes on a dual core for years with 8 GB and it's beyond frustrating when running iur if resources (mem and CPU).

Needless to say, it is going to be a challenge.
The biggest being dGPU control, hopefully via Bumblebee and Nvidia drivers in dom0 (boo, but it's the only way).

After I ordered my P1, I just found out that the Dell Precision 5520 (same as the famous XPS 15) had the option to be ordered with no GPU! This means it would be perfect for qubes as it's fairly low cost, 32 GB ram (no ECC though) and hex core.

[Achim Patzner]

Eric Duncan wrote on Sun, 25 November 2018 14:31

> Just off the bat, the biggest concern is that dGPU: you

> can't turn After I ordered my P1, I just found out that

> the Dell Precision 5520 (same as the famous XPS 15) had
> the option to be ordered with no GPU! This means it would
> be perfect for qubes as it's fairly low cost, 32 GB ram
> (no ECC though) and hex core.

At least in the German Lenovo online shop you can order all
three base models without dGPU.


Achim