[Wylug-discuss] Laptops again

[Christopher McLean]

I'd agree with John, but.... I was on the verge of buying an optimus based laptop a few months ago. There is work in progress and this looks promising:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/06/bumblebee-gets-a-ppa-brings-nvidia-optimus-graphics-switching-to-ubuntu

although when I looked into it, it still was manual switching

Chris


| -----Original Message-----
| From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-discuss-
| bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Hodrien
| Sent: 18 October 2011 08:08
| Cc: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
| Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] Laptops again
| 
| On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Paul Brook wrote:
| 
| > Sounds like a fairly safe bet.
| >
| > The only reservation I'd have is the nVidia graphics. You might want
| to
| > consider the B570 (integrated graphics only) or G570 (AMD GPU) to
| avoid
| > proprietary driver pain.  In my experience (previous generation i5)
| the intel
| > embedded Intel graphics aren't as under-powered as they used to be,
| and are
| > even sufficient for casual gaming.
| 
| I'd agree with you about current Intel HD Graphics, but not about
| proprietary
| driver pain.  I don't know what distro you're on, but the pain on
| Fedora /
| CentOS is decidedly minimal (to the extent I'd struggle to call it
| pain), and
| the general quality of their driver and OpenGL implementation easily
| covers
| it.  Avoid laptops with 'Optimus', where you have an Intel and an
| nVidia
| graphics chipset, as that *is* likely to end in a world of pain.
| 
| jh
| 
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