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[jackmott]

they work fine when they are just rendering ubuntu's window manager yeah, but so would a cpu with avx2. That is a pretty low bar.

those of us complaining are using them for gaming, or serious compute jobs.

[EpicEng → jackmott]

>those of us complaining are using them for gaming, or serious compute jobs.

Then... don't do that? Seriously, they're not intended for this. Are you also upset that your $50 Ryobi drill doesn't have enough torque to bolt together a 747?

[gshulegaard → jackmott]

Like I allude to...I can swap cards at any time:

    $ sudo prime-select nvidia
    $ sudo logout

But having the intel option to roughly double my battery life is really nice on a laptop that sees a fair bit of use as a portable.