Peter, I am a Mac person but my sons use Windows PCs for gaming, so since nobody else had chimed in, I'll have a go. From what they tell me, integrated graphics are not good enough for any high-end graphics processing, which I would assume includes Photoshop.
With the newly released MacBook Air, apparently Apple went for a lower end processor so they could include a separate graphics card as they reckoned this gave better performance than a faster chip with integrated graphics. But I don't know how much of this performance is due to Grand Central distributing the processing between the GPU & the CPU. Anyway, I recommend you research graphics cards - Nvidia or ATI seem to be the favourites at the moment - and spend the money there rather than on a faster CPU with integrated graphics. Cheers, Sarah On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Peter Alcibiades <[email protected]> wrote: > Friend of mine asked for advice on what sort of graphics card to put in a > machine he is putting together for his kid. It will be i5 probably, and he > wants to get something that will be respectable with photoshop processing. > An i3 of mine with onboard graphics was definitely not fast enough for him. > > Is i5 even enough, should he go for i7? Its not my area of expertise. I > am not even sure about the relative contributions of the graphics card and > the processor in this. > > Any suggestions gratefully received. Money is an issue, but he wants > something that will do a decent job first and foremost. > > Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
