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Quick Start Guide
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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