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So, I've had this system for a wile now and I'm very happy with it. I can play games like Riddick while not at home and they run great. The battery life is about 6 hours in Windows, but like 4 in Linux though. The biggest issue is Linux and Optimus. Apparently you have to use a hack to get around a BIOS bug which prevents the detection of the video card.

 

Some have said that this can be dangerous. If so, how? https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/pull/22

 

FYI one of the nice things you can do in Linux is run a very high resolution desktop and use on-the-fly scaling to show it on a average display. I do this on my desktop and I miss this feature here.

 

@NVIDIA: Give us a proper solution, or I'll seriously consider going AMD/APU for my next mobile system.

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