On Feb 14, 2007, at 10:28 PM, chuck5566 wrote:
It gets worse. That integrated GPU doesn't even have it's own
dedicated video memory - vram. It steals the MacBook's system
memory. This makes for slower video and helps bog down your
system, especially for apps needing that memory, like Photoshop,
Parallels and probably your CAD.
On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:04 PM, John McKernon wrote:
One of my big considerations for the longer term was if I wanted to
develop anything that involved serious graphics then I would want
the
MBP graphics card for testing purposes at least. That includes
playing
with Core Image and Core Animation in Leopard.
I do my CAD work on my PowerBook, thanks for the heads up about the
integrated graphics, I hadn't heard how slow they are!
That sounds horrible, but if you put 2GB of RAM in your MacBook,
losing 64KB to video doesn't matter. And it can run lots of fun games
just fine. Quake 3 and its ilk run great.
If you're after a gaming machine, by all means by a MBP. But even for
CAD work, unless you're doing realtime rendering of really complex
scenes, I'd think that a 3D accelerator able to handle Quake 3 well
might be enough for many people.
And of course, this is a forum for developers. For development, a
MacBook and a 20" monitor blows the doors off a MacBook Pro for
productivity, and is still cheaper.
Regards,
Guyren G Howe
Relevant Logic LLC
guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com
REALbasic, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python programming
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