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Non-restrictive notebook brands?

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I'm looking for a new notebook right now. What I hate about my current one is that Asus for some reason does not want their customers to use official GPU drivers (coming from ATI/AMD in my case) which is completely retarded in so many ways. I'm looking for brands that are not that restrictive. Which ones should I look for?
 
Are you using the mobile drivers that AMD provides on their site? I have an Acer Aspire for work which has a 6550M in it and the mobile drivers on AMD's site install just fine.
 
I have an ASUS laptop and I use official Nvidia GPU drivers without issue...

Has there been any issues on your end when using official AMD drivers or is it just something their customer rep told you?
 
The issue must be that AMD doesn't do the switching between Intel IGP and dedicated GPU too well. So manufacturers decided to implement it themselves, fucking up the ability to update. One month after release, new official AMD drivers are available. The support however won't touch them because the majority of users doesn't care anyway.

Old problem.

Maybe you should look specifically at something with an NVidia GPU. Then, you gotta pay up. Go enterprise, take the workstation route. Maybe there you can find something without restrictions.
 
What is your current model? We may be able to help (or NBRforums might, too), with the drivers.
 
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