T410 has switchable graphic or NOT ?

[prince_kassad14]

Hi all
really I'm confused about the switchable graphic capability in the T410 , i want to know if it has really switchable graphic ?
and if so is it will save power if i switch to the integrated graphic card instead of Nvidia one ?

please help

thanks
best regards

[own6volvos]

It has the same interface as the previous generation T400, but it doesnt do anything. So no on the switchable graphics.

[prince_kassad14]

so it has the software interface but physically there is no 2 graphic cards exist ?!! I'm so sad , but if i want to save power or to maximize the battery life , what is the alternatives ?
and another question please , with 9 cell battery what is the maximum battery life can we get ? because of I'm confused about the result that has been published till now on the websites reviews .

thank you so much

[Navck]

There are physically two graphics cards but the software level support (Drivers, BIOS) has not been implemented

[prince_kassad14]

good , so can we make the switchable graphic operational in the future ? or in your opinion what is the solution to this problem ?

[Dead1nside]

Switchable graphics was one of the key features for me in my T400, I'm sad that it doesn't appear to be in there. Who wants to run a hot discrete graphics core all the time when you can switch to a cooler quite capable one, and also the other way around -- it's definitely the future in my eyes.

[rkawakami]

Duplicate thread; locked. See this one: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=83649