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I'm planning on purchasing a laptop and one of the major components I want o specify is the graphic card. What I'm wonderring is, is a Shared Intel GMA 950 Video Card a decent graphic card? And if it is a decent card, whether the laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5200, 1024MB DDR2, 120GB (5400RPM), Shared Intel GMA 950 Video Card, 3 Hours battery life, 15.4" Screen is worth the price of $1000(+tax)
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No, that's not a decent graphics card. On a notebook, what you want to look for is a dedicated graphics card, and not a shared. Shared means that the card is built directly into the board, and more importantly, shares RAM with the system. Further, intel doesn't make very good graphics cards. A Core 2 processor is a very nice processor, 1GB of RAM is great, 120GB Harddrive is pretty large for a notebook drive, etc. In other words, the system looks great except for the crappy video card.
What you want for a video card will probably be either nVidia or ATI, and you want to make sure it's a dedicated card. As long as it's a dedicated card, it's almost guarenteed to be decent.
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Want to be spending over $150 dollars on a good g/c tbh. Otherwise it will just be outdated very quickly!
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Get the best G/C you can when buying a laptop because chances are you won't be able to upgrade it later.
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Want to be spending over $150 dollars on a good g/c tbh. Otherwise it will just be outdated very quickly!
