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Quick Start Guide

1

Video Features

You can switch display devices, and configure display options, from the Display control panel (in Appearances
and Personalization
) in Windows 8 when running the Desktop app (see

“Desktop Application” on page 1 -

32

).

NVIDIA

®

Optimus

Technology

NVIDIA

®

Optimus

technology is a seamless technology designed to get best performance from the graphics

system while allowing longer battery life, without having to manually change settings. The computer will auto-
matically
switch between the integrated UMA (Unified Memory Architecture) GPU (iGPU) and the discrete
GPU (dGPU) when required by the applications in use. This switch is seamless to the user (see

“NVIDIA® Op-

timus™ Technology” on page C - 2

).

.

Table 1 - 7 - GPU Mode LED Indicator

Icon

Color

Description

Off

Integrated GPU (iGPU) Activated

Blue/White

Discrete GPU (dGPU) Activated