Hi Dne St 30. října 2013 11:11:20, Basil Chupin napsal(a):
(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?
There is a Bumblebee project http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee trying to give us implementation of Optimus for Linux. Definitely, You will be able to use at least one card with no big problems and performance looses. I wasn't able to get Bumblebee to work and I ended up with Intel graphic. And I'm fine.
BC
Good luck, Vojtěch -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/