Re: Confused about graphics
- From: Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:06:37 GMT
For those applications, the integrated video would be fine. Displaying movies and TV is not demanding. In doint those tasks, the video card is not being asked to create the picture, but merely to display it. The situation in which you need a high end video card is when the video card is involved in the creation of the image to be displayed. This happens when the program is generating 3D transformations with textures. This happens in games and CAD software, but not in movies and DVD playback (DVD playback does involve MPEG decoding, but in terms of today's processors and video chips, this no longer falls into the "challenging" category and, in fact, is very easily done by today's processors purely in software, if necessary).
cranky wrote:
I'm looking to buy a laptop, which will be used net surfing, email, desktop app (e.g. MS Office) type tasks.
When travelling in our caravan I plan to use it a lot to play DVD movies and also as a TV replacement - via a TV Tuner card and one of those digital aerial things you can get nowadays.
Where I'm confused is whether I need to find the extra cash for a dedicated graphics card (like the ATI X600) or if the basic much cheaper integrated/shared memory graphics will be just fine for my needs.
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