On 24 Feb 2005, at 12:19, Steve Fuller wrote:
Dell:
Integrated Graphics (the desktop version is laughable enough, imagine it on a laptop!)
Apple:
Radeon 9200 32MB (slow, but vastly, vastly better than integrated graphics)
TECHNICALLY, they're both integrated. It's just that one is using a chipset built by a company that does nothing but design graphics chips, where the other one has one that's designing it's graphics chipsets as a way to sell more processors and motherboards. :)
Steve
Even more technically, they're actually not -- "integrated" graphics refers to a GPU built into the chipset used in the machine (often, it's in the northbridge), while the GPUs used in Macs are essentially the same as those used in add-in graphics cards, operating via an AGP bus. So, you have the Radeon 9200, which supports AGP and PCI interfaces, and the Radeon 9100, which is the equivalent integrated graphics processor. The fact that the 9200 is soldered onto the motherboard in the case of the iBooks doesn't make it integrated.
Cheers, Ben
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