You want to mine bitcoins with a laptop? Why? The laptop will wear out faster, you would get better performance per cost with a different option, many other rea

You want to mine bitcoins with a laptop? Why? The laptop will wear out faster, you would get better performance per cost with a different option, many other reasons not to as well. Also with fairness to the nVidia Optimus, AMD has "Dynamic Switchable Graphics" that is quite similar. The state of linux support for my laptop with the AMD equivalent is not the greatest either. In linux, there are quite a few projects providing some form of support to this, (note the Nvidia Optimus section on the archlinux wiki for Hybrid Graphics[1]) so stating it doesn't work at all on mac/linux is fairly untrue. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics#Nvidia_Optimus https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hybrid_graphics#Nvidia_...