Integrated or Dedicated Video Card?

I'm thinking of purchasing a laptop computer but wanted to know if I should invest in a model with a dedicated video card. The computer has plenty of ram (3GB) so I was thinking that the integrated video card should be fine even if it functions at its full capacity while using a couple hundred MB of the ram. What do you think? Is it really worth it to invest in a 128 mb video card even with the amount of ram that I'm getting?|||Normally, video graphics adapters are integrated into the motherboards of laptops and their video memories are just being shared from the physical RAM of the computer. It doesn't have a very big difference in the performance if you use integrated or dedicated video graphics card . What matters is that you can share at least 256MB or 512MB max video memory from the physical RAM of the computer. It is not wise therefore to invest on a 128MB of dedicated video card over an integrated one. Just buy a laptop with BIOS that will allow sharing of more video memory from the physical memory.|||its not just about the amount of RAM but shared memory is also slow and video card with dedicated memory is far better

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Memo…

read this and you should get your answer =)|||If budget is not a problem, go for a laptop with dedicated video ram. This will be fast because the Graphics Processor directly accesses its own ram. In the case of shared memory, the GP requires the use of main board bus and DMA channels and hence a bit slow. This can never be noticed unless you are using a very high end graphics application or some latest games.



If you decide to go for dedicated ram model, look for 256 MB atleast though 512 MB is always better. It will last for 3 years atleast.|||DEDICATED MAN! a dedicate video processor may use a few more WATS of power but they have their own independent processing chips and RAM completely separate of the CPU and don't rely on it immensely like onboard video does.|||yeah dedicated is much better