Textmode on pretty much every laptop since the beginning of time uses a GPU to draw characters in textmode. GPU doesn't mean NVidia, it means graphics accelerator, and they've been used since the 1970s or earlier to turn ASCII characters into glyphs onscreen.
The earliest IBM PCs and compatibles used hardware acceleration for textmode, and those ancient BIOS interfaces and successors are still used to draw characters, not pixel by pixel, but with hardware acceleration.
So whether or not you like it, whether or not you understand how your laptop actually works, you're almost certainly using a GPU to render textmode.
The earliest IBM PCs and compatibles used hardware acceleration for textmode, and those ancient BIOS interfaces and successors are still used to draw characters, not pixel by pixel, but with hardware acceleration.
So whether or not you like it, whether or not you understand how your laptop actually works, you're almost certainly using a GPU to render textmode.