On 7/12/06, Mat Maessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/12/06, Perry Pellechia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was about to order the 13" Macbook, but I was concerend with the > > lower end video and shared memory. Overall it looks like a nice > > machine. I wish Apple did not skimp of the graphics. > > If all you're doing is photo editing in Photoshop on the machine, > you'll probably never notice the difference. If you want to do > anything that involves 3D rendering (newer video games, etc.), then it > makes sense to go with the MacBook Pro and the better video. > > -Mat > > My current machine (three years old) is an early ASUS Celeron/Pentium M notebook. While I know you cannot compare this with anything new, the Intel graphics with shared memory has been the bottleneck for anything I do with it. I am not a gamer, nor am I doing any 3D work with it, but comparing this machine with a slightly newer Dell notebook with a dedicated graphics card shows how poor it is. So I am a little gun-shy when it comes to lower-end graphics built into a notebook.
I also plan to run Windows is a virtual session on the Mac, so performance is a concern. I use Corel Draw for a lot of data presentations and lecture notes and this is really taxes my current machine. Thanks for the advice. Perry. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
