Lenovo notebook (t or w series) with ATI/AMD gpu?

Does Lenovo make any decent t or w series notebook (15" screen with 16:9 or FHD) with ATI/AMD gpu?

Due to NVIDIA's incredibly unethical and crappy customer service, there is no way I am buying any notebooks with NVIDIA gpu inside.

My budget is around $2k

 

The only one I can see at this time is the AMD thinkpad edge 15. While Im with you on hating nvidia, sadly they make up the lions share of the market. I am hoping with the shift towards ATI with them being slightly stronger with Auto cad applications that ati will win some people over.

If they offered an ati solution in a t or w series I wouldnt have posted my concern with a discrete gpu in another thread.

 

Unethical? How?

 

Unfortunately Lenovo only sells NVIDIA discrete option for their T/W series. If you really want a AMD GPU solution on a business notebook you're probably better off looking at the HP Elitebooks which offers them.

 

@thor

I don't want to bore Lenovo info seekers with nitty gritty details so read what's going on in this thread. You can also visit the site in my sig for more info

@Hearst-

Thanks but HP is on my list of "do not buy" as well for the same reason as above

@sphinx

I might have to just bite the bullet and learn how to do things in OSX (mbp 15, high res, anti-glare, ati gpu)

 

As it's been stated above, you are only going to find Nvidia GPU in most mobile workstations. Only the big 17.3" will offer ATi FirePro and even then it is a rare option these days.

Going Apple will only offer you consumer grade GPU that is not meant for CAD/rendering.

 

I think you answered your own question! I am sure the W-series gpu's are wonderful, if you need such power. Lenovo supports whatever gpu hardware they choose, anyway. At least you don't seem to have a problem with Intel gpu's...
And yes, my W500 has an ATI....

 

I have sigs turned off in my options because they are typically full of information that just clutters the screen with anime pics and whatnot. As for the thread, I don't have time to read about a class action suit. I can pretty much guess.

I take it you had a Lenovo ThinkPad with a NVIDIA GPU that burned up? If not, there's no place for that style of rant here.

 

Just install Window 7 on the macbook and you won't notice that you are using an PC with OSX preinstalled.

 

Except the battery life and crappy driver support.

 

lol. it was not a rant but a question. i added a bit of info about nvidia because i wanted to see amd/ati options existed with t or w series

all others, thanks for answering my question

 

Your only option is a used ThinkPad T500 or W500.

With a high-end Core 2 T9x or P9x processor, you should get very good performance; you just won't be able to get new, or a Core i-series ThinkPad with ATI/AMD graphics.

 

Right. " Due to NVIDIA's incredibly unethical and crappy customer service" is a pleasant way to start along with links to threads and class action suits that have apparently been taking quite a bit of your time.

Trust me, I would like more competition and choice like everyone else but just ask the question and leave the politics and legal matters out of it.

 

I am sorry, but I must have confused you with someone else, who asked "unethical? how?"

I don't remember volunteering links until someone asked me that question.

Thanks LoneWolf

I am going to check out Lenovo's outlet store

 

but really the gpu in these things would be considered "entry-level" these days!

 

"FAIRnvidiasettlement.com" is in your sig. I think we're done here. Good luck in your ATI/AMD hunt. Hope it works out for you.

 

Didn't know about that. Seems I am typing on a defective laptop now

 

Thor,

While it may be unpleasant, (and I don't want to open a giant can of worms), the OP has a point when it comes to some of nVidia's past business practices, including the recent mobile GPU fiasco that affected the ThinkPad R61/T61/T61p line, as well as models by Dell, Apple, and HP of that same era. They would have attempted to sweep it under the rug, something that they have successfully done with some of their past technical issues (e.g., nForce 3/4 mainboard chipset issues, Geforce 68xx rev. 1 PureVideo processing broken in silicon, etc.) but this time the issue affected too many people to keep it quiet. I also don't think the OP's one sentence equals a rant.

There's no reason to take it too deep in this thread, but I can completely understand why some people will choose ATI over nVidia. If the T420 were available with an ATI/AMD graphics option, I would myself. You asked how they were unethical --I think the OP tried to say something without going too deep.

If I had one of those failed laptops (or if my T61 with nVidia graphics fails for that reason in the future), I'd have been frustrated myself. I'll leave it at that --I think if no-one had asked the OP the question, it wouldn't have further opened up the thread. This will be my only post on the subject, so I don't open it up further.