Hi,
i, for one, would approach any laptop using Nvidia Optimus technology 
with caution, particularly if i want to run Linux on it.

I googled your laptop config and it comes with 'Intel® Core™ i7-4900MQ 
Processor' meaning Intel® HD Graphics 4600 built in.

I just wander, why the laptop sellers stopped to announce Nvidia Optimus 
technology on their laptops - nowadays noone says a word. Is it because 
it got a bad rep? In my eyes it indeed does.

Bumblebee is working solution on Linux, but not entirely convenient? - 
you need to switch between VGAs manually as far as i understand the problem.

I don't have personal experience with Optimus, as i do not own any newer 
built laptop (my own is 6yrs old).

But after reading many many angry threads on various linux (and even a 
windows) forums, i'd think twice before buying one.



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On 01/27/2015 03:54 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On 01/27/2015 12:10 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> I am considering replacing my current HP 8530p with a
>> Dell Precision M4800 Mobile Workstation .
> Dell Precision Mobile Workstations are (and have been for a long while
> now) available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux preinstalled (as long as
> you're in the correct portal; I think you need to be in one of the
> business portals, not the individual one, where they push Inspirons
> instead of Latitudes and Precisions).  If RHEL will work, so will SL (or
> CentOS, for that matter).  My M6500 works very well with CentOS 7 (and
> it would with SL 7 as well), and my previous M4300 worked very well with
> CentOS 6 (and would have worked well with SL6).
>