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I did some searches and can't figure out if I have Intel Graphic Cards driver working to be sure it's being used instead of Nvidia drivers. We all know how bad Nvidia blob really is on Ubuntu machines.

Ubuntu 14.04.3 64 bit with

Intel® Core™ i3-2330M processor

I checked synaptic I have have this installed xserver-xorg-video-intelThe output of lspci | grep VGA is

~$ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 525M] (rev a1)

The second command I ran lshw -c video

~$ lshw -c video
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
 *-display 
 description: VGA compatible controller
 product: GF108M [GeForce GT 525M]
 vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
 physical id: 0
 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
 version: a1
 width: 64 bits
 clock: 33MHz
 capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
 configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
 resources: irq:32 memory:c2000000-c2ffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128) memory:c3080000-c30fffff
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.

Really want to have Intel Graphic Driver fully installed to take advantage of its native performance.

user280930
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This is what I meant with my comment in our discussion :

To achieve want you want - switching to intel graphics -
you have to install NVIDIA drivers and Optimus support.

Install the latest current stable NVIDIA driver
from the NVIDIA short-lived branch (355.11) : 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-355 nvidia-prime
sudo reboot

After rebooting open NVIDIA Xserver Settings -> PRIME Profiles and select Intel.
Logout and back in - check PRIME Profiles - now you are using the intel graphics !

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