The new Lenovo IDEAPADS

Hi-

I'm looking at the new Ideapads from Lenovo, specifically the model Y510. 
15.4" screen, 2gb ram, 250 gb hard drive.  Nice looking box.

Has anyone bought any of the new Ideapads and installed eCS?

I've seen a number of posts about having trouble with audio and wi-fi on 
newer thinkpads.  This makes me wonder if Ideapads are having the same 
problems. This Y510 has 4 speakers and a sub-woofer, and sounded great for a 
laptop.

I know they have been adding more device support in each new release 
candidate.  Hopefully 2.0 Gold will support the newer video, audio, and 
wi-fi technology.

Regards,

-Steve 

Hi Steve

SWM wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> I'm looking at the new Ideapads from Lenovo, specifically the model Y510. 
> 15.4" screen, 2gb ram, 250 gb hard drive.  Nice looking box.
> 
> Has anyone bought any of the new Ideapads and installed eCS?
> 
> I've seen a number of posts about having trouble with audio and wi-fi on 
> newer thinkpads.  This makes me wonder if Ideapads are having the same 
> problems. This Y510 has 4 speakers and a sub-woofer, and sounded great for
a 
> laptop.
> 
> I know they have been adding more device support in each new release 
> candidate.  Hopefully 2.0 Gold will support the newer video, audio, and 
> wi-fi technology.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Steve 
> 
> 


Not being a laptop/notebook user myself the only advice I can suggest is 
the same as for desktops: check what audio and nic chipsets are in use 
and then check for driver availability.

I do remember reading somewhere that uniaud does not support HDA (High 
Definition Audio?) yet so that could be problem 1. You could possibly 
volunteer to test uniaud development in that direction though  :-)

Hopefully someone else will be able to clarify what wi-fi support is 
available as I have not had to look into that myself - yet.

I suspect your only video driver option will involve using VBE rather 
than an accelerated driver.

Regards

Pete