I think for general use the onboard graphic's will be fine, Having it
separate in the original mac mini was advertised at gamers, I believe
apple has also limited the memory it can "steal" to 64Mb.
I have replaced the standard 16mb card in my g4 with a 128mb 3d graphics
card, it has made no difference to general performance especially photo
work, what it did do was allow me to run some games at high resolution
but to be honest I only did this to see if it would and since in day to
day work I see no benefit apart from the fact that it is core image
enabled (not worth much really at the moment) but the macbook graphics
is also core enabled.
The macbook (according to the site) also supports large external
displays (problem with my old ibook even with the hack) so I would say
unless you play games or edit movies it won't make too much difference.
IanW
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Yes - I suddenly remembered inverters and picked up a little one today.
> Now - the rest of the answer is one of those 'thanks, but what does
> the explanation mean' scenarios. I was tempted to ask if it didn't
> matter if I didn't watch any videos on it. What is covered by
> 'graphics tasks'? In my experience it's games players who get picky
> about fast graphics cards. N I don't play games, watch TV, edit
> movies or similar tasks. I don't need it to scream - would it run
> much slower and would bumping the RAM up a bit make it acceptable?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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