black-Friday notebook deal -- Linux!

Mon Nov 28 18:53:08 UTC 2011

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 05:50:36PM -0800, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> I've been pretty happy with my.Asus running linux. Core i7, plenty of RAM.
> Drivers work just fine.F
> 
> or Asus laptops, you're gotta be careful about the ones with the "hybrid"
> graphics cards. The secondary (high-power) card is not really supported ,
> although slash recently had an article on emerging support

It is being worked on, but yes it can be a hassle.  Some systems have a
BIOS option to enable either the intel, the nvidia or dynamic switching.
I believe linux is OK with it if set to one or the other for now.

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