On 30/10/13 22:11, Basil Chupin wrote:
(Tip-toeing thru a minefield when trying to decide which laptop to buy is not much fun :-( .)
What hidden reefs am I going to strike if I buy a laptop, to install openSUSE (13.1- and beyond), which has for its graphics something called 'NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics with Optimus Technology'?
Will I be able to install oS on such a beast and get at least some fuzzy picture on the screen or not? (The laptop will come with Windows #8 pre-installed and which I will immediately consign to the latrine - after having it updated for free to 8.1 of course :-) .)
Anybody, please, have an answer to, comment on, the above question?
BC
Well, the part about Optimus is still under development in the Bumblebee project but it is solved with respect to the laptop which I have ordered. I have ordered the Lenovo T530 laptop (with the i7 cpu) and I found out (by phoning Lenovo) that- (1) I can switch off UEFI in the BIOS; and (2) switch off Optimus feature (in the BIOS) for the graphics chip. So, whoever is working on the Bumblebee Project, please hurry up and get Bumblebee fully operational, OK? :-) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.11.6-3 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org