Maximum PC

As refer to my previous post (here), I find it can be sometimes annoying since user has to manually set the game profile to use the Discrete GPU (Nvidia, in my case) rather than letting the system to set it automatically.

For my experience, it started when I was playing Starcraft 2 Multiplayer and noticed the graphic performance was not as smooth as previous games. In the end, I just reinstalled the driver from my notebook manufacturer site and re-do the game profile and force SC2 to run on 'High Performance Nvidia Processor' rather on 'Use Global Setting: Auto-Select: Nvidia GPU'.

What are your thoughts (those who are using) on it?

NVIDIA gave me an Optimus laptop (UL50VF) to check out when it launched, it worked pretty well for me. I wanted some more horsepower on the cpu and gpu, just bought a MSI FX603, again with Optimus. I work on the road sometimes, might need battery life, to game, or to run some big queries or reports so Optimus works out well for me.

I had an Asus ROG laptop with a GTX260M in it prior to this, battery was always dying in airports. That said, I've never played Starcraft on a laptop, so I can't dispute that there are games that need to be manually set. (I wouldn't expect that to be one, but I'm not going to install it to see) Better to have than not, IMO.