I have given up on buying laptops with dGPUs - Post Sandy Bridge Intel's GPU is more than what a non-gaming machine needs and I certainly don't need the battery loss and added heat.

(These dGPU related repair issues seems like the are an Apple only thing though - my work laptop has a Nvidia GPU and it is running most of the times due to sleep/wake issues - no other problems in the past 4 years. Haven't heard of any other manufacturers having similar issues recently either.)