The time has come for me to buy a new laptop. I use Ubuntu (well, Kubuntu) and nothing else. Out of my working hours I use my laptop to watch movies and sometimes I have to do video conversions with ffmpeg (yeap, a standalone compilation because I do NOT want avconv, but please don't start flame war, that is a completely different topic altogether).
I can buy a laptop with an integrated Intel video card as I have had until now, or I can choose a laptop with a GPU card (Nvidia, I think) which reduces battery life but allegedly has some advantages. What would be those advantages?
Windows users with GPU cards can see movies with on-the-fly frame interpolation. That is not possible in linux yet, as far as I know. And, if that is not possible, why would I want to have a laptop with a GPU card being an Ubuntu user? If the GPU card is only going to be a piece of plastic sucking extra milliwatts, I prefer to spare my money.