Laptop Recommendation

[Kent Fredric]

On 24 January 2012 08:01, Mallory van Achterberg
<stommepoes at stommepoes.nl> wrote:
> Many of the cheaper laptops I would have considered ran Optimus.
> Optimus is great... if you run Windows.
> http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/09/nvidia-there-is-no-optimus-support-for.html

I have an optimus laptop, and its not that bad. It takes a bit of
effort at present to get it working, but when you manage to get it
going, it works like a charm, and almost as good as it is in windows.

https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee

^ this runs as a daemon backgrounded with a seperate X session running
on the GPU.

And then  to run something accelerated, you have to prefix starting it
with a special command

  optirun ~/path/to/minecraft.sh

for example.

Its not supported stock anywhere yet that I can see, but there is
certainly hope.

Its certainly bloody good considering Nvidia are refusing to support
it on Linux.

-- 
Kent