Is it worth it to get a dedicated graphics card for a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook?
Dell offers Integrated Intel® Media Accelerator 900 Graphics or a separate ATI's MOBILITY RADEON X300 PCI Express x16 Graphics card.
No plans for gaming; just mainly Office/Powerpoint applications, managing digital photos and watching DVDs when traveling.
Just like to save some $ if I won't see any extra performance.
You'll be fine with the integrated solution.
If con is the opposite of pro, then what's the opposite of progress?
No need to get a dedicated video card if you don't do gaming or graphic.
I would rather get the dedicated because I need all 512MB RAM for my system instead of 384MB (128MB shared video). If I have more RAM then I would get the integrated video card.
Dell Dimension 9200 | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz) | 4x1GB DDR2 | 256MB nVidia GeForce 8800GT
Dell Studio 17 | Intel Core i7-720QM (1.6GHz) | 6GB DDR3 1066MHz | 1GHz ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650
Intel P4-C 3.0GHz | ECS 865PE-A | 3x512MB PC3200 | 128MB PNY GeForce 6600GT
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Thanks for the suggestions! I'll just load up on 1 GB of RAM and the integrated graphics. The savings will pay for the extra RAM.
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