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But don't all modern MBPs have both an integrated and discrete graphics card? Mine sure does. So when I'm not doing something graphics-intensive, my 15" MBP u
by thom_nic 10y ago
But don't all modern MBPs have both an integrated and discrete graphics card? Mine sure does. So when I'm not doing something graphics-intensive, my 15" MBP uses the Iris Pro graphics.
I can't say I've experienced the described behavior except on rare occasions when I need to find a rogue task and kill it.
Check out gfxCardStatus. To be fair, some apps (IntelliJ IDEs + Java6 cough) seem to force it into using the discrete graphics card but even then I don't get the spinning-fan-slow-to-a-crawl behavior.