Accelerated graphics: No;
Audio: Audio works as expected though there is a known bug
[causing it to] stop working after a period of time;
Cameras: No;
Hibernation: Maybe;
Suspend/Resume: No;
Wireless: No
In short, this laptop seems deeply incompatible with OpenBSD. :)
Battery life is not great. I ran for just over two hours with full use (compiling various things, lots of network activity, streaming music videos on youtube). I fully expect it to be much better once things are properly supported.
Just as of yesterday I became aware of the existence of these machines, I’m really interested on them but don’t know if they compare properly with their T48X counterparts, notebookcheck made a review stating CPU performance isn’t on par; though that’s something I could live with. I’m mainly interested on running OpenBSD on one drive and Windows on a secondary physical storage device, probably SSD, but I’m having a hard time finding information on the Lenovo website if such thing is even possible (having a second slot for a second drive).
So, I have the NVMe pcie drive in mine. There is an empty m.2 slot I tried connecting an extra ssd to. Unfortunately it didn’t show up (in bios or otherwise). I haven’t put the m.2 drive into another machine to make sure it isn’t to blame.. I will try it later and see :D.
As far as build quality (as compared to the X and T series), this machine is right up there! Feels solid.
OpenBSD supports Intel AC now? It’s been a while, but last time I checked out networking stacks on both FreeBSD and OpenBSD, neither supported any AC adapters.
In short, this laptop seems deeply incompatible with OpenBSD. :)
I wrote the review (and this comment) form it. Seems pretty compatible to me. :)
I concede that things are 100%, but they never are right out of the gate. Especially with newer hardware.
Nice! What about its battery life?
Battery life is not great. I ran for just over two hours with full use (compiling various things, lots of network activity, streaming music videos on youtube). I fully expect it to be much better once things are properly supported.
Thank you.
Which battery option did you get?
an xorg.conf with:
might fix your video output as per this bug report.
What no pictures!
I’ll add some shortly :D
Edit: Added some pictures!
I like the the built-in camera cover, very nice feature (and laptop.)
Just as of yesterday I became aware of the existence of these machines, I’m really interested on them but don’t know if they compare properly with their T48X counterparts, notebookcheck made a review stating CPU performance isn’t on par; though that’s something I could live with. I’m mainly interested on running OpenBSD on one drive and Windows on a secondary physical storage device, probably SSD, but I’m having a hard time finding information on the Lenovo website if such thing is even possible (having a second slot for a second drive).
So, I have the NVMe pcie drive in mine. There is an empty m.2 slot I tried connecting an extra ssd to. Unfortunately it didn’t show up (in bios or otherwise). I haven’t put the m.2 drive into another machine to make sure it isn’t to blame.. I will try it later and see :D.
As far as build quality (as compared to the X and T series), this machine is right up there! Feels solid.
Thank you @qbit, those are great news. The A485 for sure is going to be my next machine.
OpenBSD supports Intel AC now? It’s been a while, but last time I checked out networking stacks on both FreeBSD and OpenBSD, neither supported any AC adapters.
It supports it, just not in AC mode.