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Originally Posted by rusnak
Oh man, that just sucks sweaty donkey balls.
I'll be showing up there more now with my little MBP Air like an emergency room hypochondriac. I'll have do start wearing disguises.
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There is a minor bright side.
All those boxes have 2 GPU's, a high end card, (AMD or nVidia) and a low end Intel card.
The reason is battery life.
By default the high end card runs but if you are on battery and not taxing the box it automagically switches to the low end card to save juice, also runs cooler.
There is a utility that was developed specifically for this situation, gFXcardstatus.
Let's you lock to either GPU.
If you can get the box in the right heat, low power situation it'll boot to the low end card and run just fine except don't expect to use any demanding software. Then you lock to that GPU as the default using the utility.
I can usually get them to boot low power after a few days of letting them sleep and heat up and run down the battery.
No such luck so far with this one.