In the past with my old W500 I found the Intel GPU working in there quite sufficient and never used the ATI card, so I initially decided to disable the NVidia GPU in the BIOS and install with the "Integrated Only". The W530 is one of those laptops coming with the Optimus™ Technology, allowing to switch between a low power Intel HD GPU ( Intel HD 4000 in particular) and a high power NVIDIA Quadro K1000M GPU, with the latter providing much better graphics performance but also consuming much more power. In my case, installing Fedora was extremely smooth, nothing special to report here. The same applies to the new, upcoming UEFI "secure boot" mechanisms, at least on my box they were just disabled in the BIOS and caused no issues whatsoever. The Lenovo W530 I am installing on (2247-HJ5) came without operating system, so I cannot comment on how easy or difficult it is to add Fedora next to a possibly preexisting Windows installation. 3.2 no external displays with the Intel GPU.
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