Looking for fully working Intel-based laptop

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:48 AM, Anton Sayetsky <vsasjason at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > I think it switches the output between them internally when stuff like
> 3D is active.
> Wiki says no - output is never switches:
> >When a user launches an application, the graphics driver tries to
> determine whether the application would benefit from the discrete GPU. If
> so, the GPU is powered up from an idle state and is passed all rendering
> calls. Even in this case, though, the integrated graphics processor (IGP)
> is used to output the final image.
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus
> So one can think "unfortunately, my Hasswell/Skylake IGP isn't supported
> yet, so I will use nVidia with binary driver". Then he tries and has no
> success because still required to load driver for IGP even if not uses it
> directly.
>

The white paper agrees with the wiki so I know of no modern laptop which
has truly discrete graphics.  Older ones did and you were able to toggle
back and forth via func key or bios.

I thought AMD still made some mobile CPU/s w/o integrated graphics, but
maybe not.



-- 
Adam