Yeah, disabling the discrete card made a huge difference to my laptop's stability (also 2010 15" MBP with NVIDIA GT 330M). There's an open-source app called gfx

Yeah, disabling the discrete card made a huge difference to my laptop's stability (also 2010 15" MBP with NVIDIA GT 330M). There's an open-source app called gfxCardStatus [0] that lets you switch between integrated and discrete from the menubar. On 10.12 the original app doesn't work properly, but one of its forks [1] fixes the issue. [0] https://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus https://github.com/codykrieger/gfxCardStatus [1] https://github.com/steveschow/gfxCardStatus/releases https://github.com/steveschow/gfxCardStatus/releases