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Bulls729

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Jul 13, 2011
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Context/Know Information for those who do not know: Since the first incarnation of the Unibody MPB it has both a Discrete and Integrated graphics card, these cards can be switched between in the OS X Partition just fine, however Apple has disabled that functionality when using Bootcamp. When running Windows 7 it only sees the discrete GPU, in my case the 9600m GT however the SMC locks out the Integrated Intel GPU.


It appears that some progress has been made in enabling the integrated GPU that information can be found here.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15507797#15507797

However they have only found that it can only see the GPU but not initialize it, it seems with some EFI editing this limitation can be removed, and I myself have no experience in that field, the easiest way to get into the EFI would be to be using rEFIt

If anyone has any experience in this, could I get some help so hopefully us Mac user can get the Hybrid/Optimus "technology" working within bootcamp as the idea is not that far fetched.

Thank You.
 
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