My Initial Intel Broadwell Linux Experience With The ThinkPad X1 Carbon

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Phoronix: My Initial Intel Broadwell Linux Experience With The ThinkPad X1 Carbon

On Thursday my Broadwell-powered Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptop/ultrabook finally arrived for some Linux testing of Intel's exciting Haswell successor. While many tests are forthcoming of this third-generation X1 Carbon -- including Broadwell Windows vs. Linux benchmarks -- here's my initial experiences over the first ~10 minutes with this new hardware...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X1-Carbon-Linux-First-Try

[Drago]

Wellcome to the ThinkPad club, Michael. As an owner of T430s couldn't be happy.

[AJenbo]

I'm pretty sure that the secureboot is handled by the schim bootloader and that the kernels are not signed at all.

Wellcome to the ThinkPad club, Michael. As an owner of T430s couldn't be happy.

Just got a ThinkPad T540p when i started my new job My only complaint so fare is the keyboard, theres a few key bositions that i do not agree with and some keys are not always responding, especial 5 on the numpad.

[Drago]

I'm pretty sure that the secureboot is handled by the schim bootloader and that the kernels are not signed at all.



Just got a ThinkPad T540p when i started my new job My only complaint so fare is the keyboard, theres a few key bositions that i do not agree with and some keys are not always responding, especial 5 on the numpad.

Don't have numpad. Keyboard quality/positioning is the most valuable thing to me

[Kano]

Would be very interesting to see vainfo with latest libva/i965-va-driver (why is that universe in Ubuntu?!). Also in case you have got HEVC output, install lastest gstreamer-vaapi and try to decode some 4k hevc files. 8 bit, 10 bit ts (from 4k test channels on satellite for example). I would like to see vdpauinfo from GTX 960/970/980 as well (vdpau 0.9+).

[przemoli]

Microphone and camera work well?

[dungeon]

Would be very interesting to see vainfo with latest libva/i965-va-driver (why is that universe in Ubuntu?!). Also in case you have got HEVC output, install lastest gstreamer-vaapi and try to decode some 4k hevc files. 8 bit, 10 bit ts (from 4k test channels on satellite for example).

How is that worth anything when screen is FullHD and not 10bit? And AFAIK 4K support is only up to 24Hz

And i think VP8, VP9 and HEVC are supported in Windows only in software not in hardware, but well who knows (based on reading some sites) .

[darkbasic]

Please check for issues and test the Linux compatibility for everything, I already have the X1 Carbon in my cart

[darkbasic]

How is that worth anything when screen is FullHD and not 10bit? And AFAIK 4K support is only up to 24Hz

It has nothing to do with the screen depth

[dungeon]

Yeah, trying to find hard some info about HEVC decode on these intel chips:

https://communities.intel.com/thread/59216

It does not have it ... what is that hybrid decoding, i guess something done with shaders.

Oh why hardware companies advertise software solutions , world getting mad really