All;

I'm thinking about getting a GIGABYTE P34Gv2-CF4 with these specs:


- 14.0” FHD 16:9 LED IPS Backlit Wide screen (1920x1080) Anti-Glare Matte Type Screen
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4th Generation Intel® Haswell Core™ i7-4710HQ (2.5GHz - 3.5GHz, 6MB Intel® Smart Cache)
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NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M (4.0GB) GDDR5 PCI-Express DX11 w/ Optimus™ Technology
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16GB DDR3 1866MHz [SKU-444BX] (Crucial Ballistix Sport Dual Channel Memory (2x8GB SODIMMS))
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512GB Crucial M550 Solid State mSATA III (Read 550MB/s - Write 500MB/s)
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1TB Crucial M550 SSD (Read 550MB/s - Write 500MB/s (SATA III))
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Smart Li-ion Battery (4-Cell)

Most of the hardware seems compatible enough, I only have 2 concerns:

1) the
512GB Crucial M550 Solid State mSATA III, can I install the OS & boot off this drive?

2)
the NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M (4.0GB) GDDR5, I've seen some posts of folks having issues with this card,
     will it work with the open source nouveau drivers (even if I get less functionality)? Or with the kmod-nvidia packages?

Thoughts?


Thanks in advance...