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    1. No, you can’t install the drivers manually if they aren’t supported. Nvidia does rolling driver releases removing aged out hardware, and the drivers do not support new versions with older hardware. Same with Windows.

    2. Nouveau is the only option you have as far as hardware acceleration goes, but if these are laptops, you’d be better off just using the Intel graphics, because that’s what’s available, and they are very power efficient.

    3. Power consumption is immediately bad once you engage the Nvidia hardware. Disable it in the BIOS. You won’t have better performance in any meaningful way, just horrible battery life, especially since these are devices so old the modern drivers won’t support the hardware.