Laptop Advice needed

nevski

nevski

nevski

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I'm about to purchase a laptop but need some advice. I'm only going to use the laptop for surfing the net & using photographic software (this is only as a hobby, not for professional purposes). I'm not a gamer! I've seen a Gateway MT6825B laptop which I like the look of, but my only concern is that it has onboard graphics. Will the onboard graphics be sufficient enough when working with the photographic software? This laptop comes in under £500, see spec below:

Intel core2duo T5200
1GB DDR2 memory
Intel graphics media accelerator 950 with up to 224MB shared video memory
Hard Drive 100GB
Windows Vista™ Home

Would appreciate any advice, thanks :)
 
I understand that onboard graphics will use the CPU memory, therefore it will make the computer a little slower, but do you think it will have a major affect? Will this cpu be more than capable?

Thanks for your quick reply :)
 
nevski said:
I understand that onboard graphics will use the system memory, therefore it will make the computer a little slower, but do you think it will have a major affect? Will this cpu be more than capable?
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It might have an effect if it takes it the whole of it's allocation, but as the laptop runs Vista (which needs at least 1GB), any slowdown could be noticed. But this could remedied if you install more system RAM.

It is a Core2Duo, even though it is a mobile one it should be a OK.
 
I'd do best to get a laptop with a graphics card then, the less system memory I use the better when running vista & other things then? Any opinions on the Nvidia Geforce Go 7300 128mb/256mb graphics card? Thinking of buying the Acer 5633wlmi (lx.ag50j.169) laptop, any thoughts?

Thanks for all replies by the way :D
 
nevski said:
I'd do best to get a laptop with a graphics card then, the less system memory I use the better when running vista & other things then? Any opinions on the Nvidia Geforce Go 7300 128mb/256mb graphics card? Thinking of buying the Acer 5633wlmi (lx.ag50j.169) laptop, any thoughts?
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If you want to but you don't particularly have to, but a laptop with a dedicated video card with VRAM is always welcome. The 7300 isn't amazing but good enough for Vista usage etc

The Acer looks alrite, how much RAM comes with it?
 
It comes with 1 gig of ram (max.ram 4 gig)

Forgot to say that I wil also use the laptop to watch dvd's on, does this now make a difference?

Thanks :D
 
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