is mi notebook 14 graphics card switchable - windows

I want to buy a mi notebook 14. In the spec sheet it says it has a Nvidia graphics card. I know a few friends who bought a laptop with dedicated graphics card, but they cant change the graphics card system wide. There is a way to change the graphics card for a specific applications, but I don't want that. So I want to ask, Is there a way to change graphics cards system wide?

There is a way to add a graphics card to a laptop, but it's not for gaming purposes. Strange as it might sound, you can plug one in to a USB port. Doing this gives you an extra graphics output so you can drive an external monitor as well as your laptop's built-in screen. If your laptop already has a VGA, DisplayPort or HDMI output, adding a USB graphics card means you can drive a third screen: you're not limited to two displays.
For example, this StarTech adapter gives your laptop an HDMI output: https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-External-Video-Monitor-Adapter/dp/B00H91BRZU/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?tag=pcagenius-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1521109083&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=Startek%20USB%20graphics%20card&ascsubtag=06-3364133-11-0000000&geniuslink=true

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I would like to know if it is possible, and if so, how to do it. So my objetive is when i flash the eMMC of the BeagleBone Black with a new Debian image disk, this image already contains some modifications that I always do after installing a new image, like for example:
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Either mount and modify the SD card.
Or boot from SD and modify the SD card.
Or if you want to flash the same image to multiple devices, then flash to one and modify it to your liking. Once done use the appropriate script in /opt to turn it back into a SD card /flasher.
1) Boot your Beaglebone from the SD card enabling EMMC flashing
Plug the SD card and hold the boot button on the top right (near the SD card slot) and, while holding this button, insert the USB/power lead to connect the power. Keep holding the button until the LEDs start to flash.
(Complete info on http://derekmolloy.ie/write-a-new-image-to-the-beaglebone-black/)
2) Make your modifications to the image on EMMC
For example remove some packages, download updates, configure network interfaces, etc.
3) Dump EMMC content to SD
There are many ways to do this, but the easiest is to use the beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh script that should be already installed on the beaglebone or downloading it from Github.
4) Remove SD card and repeat from Step 1) on another beaglebone

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The task:
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Description:
There is web-camera connected to a Mac via USB. I need to discover a way of getting access to its' brightness, pan, color temperature, focus, etc.
I also need a way to apply image filters against camera's video stream.
I need to be able to control the camera while it is being used by other programs like Skype, so I can transmit for example video stream with increased contrast at Skype video call.
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