Dne St 6. listopadu 2013 23:41:46, Florian Gleixner napsal(a):
On 10/30/2013 12:11 PM, 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
One thing you might consider: With Intel graphics you cannot connect 2 monitors - or i could not get it working. For me this is a common use when working at the dockstation, and since bumblebee did not work well, i use the nvidia card all the time - running on battery is no fun.
No, I use two monitors every day (second monitor connected to notebook) and it works perfectly with Intel. I have been doing it with several notebooks, Intel cards and versions of openSUSE with KDE4. No problem. All the best, Vojtěch -- Vojtěch Zeisek Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux http://www.opensuse.org/ http://trapa.cz/