olushola wrote:
> It's for a laptop. Desktop is no problem.
> Olushola

That gets to be a bit more difficult (grin).  One has to dig carefully 
into the technical specs provided by the manufacturer in order to figure 
out whether the video card shares the main RAM or has it's own dedicated 
RAM.  Some integrated video cards are even a mix of the two (64MB 
dedicated but allows it to pull up to another 192MB from system RAM).

Looking at the laptops:

T60

Standard is the Intel 950, which I think is integrated.

With options to upgrade to the 128MB ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

T60p

Standard is the 256MB ATI FireGL V5200

Tecra M5

Standard is the Intel 950

Upgrade is: NVIDIA® Quadro® NVS 110M with 128MB DDR memory, plus up to 
128MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIA® 
TurboCache technology.  (Notice that the 2nd 128MB is shared from main 
memory.)

Apple

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/stats/macbook_1.83.html

The Apple site doesn't explicity state what is inside the Apple MacBook 
or the MacBook pro.  Some searching indicates that the MacBook Pro 
probably uses a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor with 128 MB 
of GDDR3 video memory.  The MacBook probably uses an Intel 950 GPU.

So if you want to game on a Mac, the MacBook Pro is definitely the 
better choice.

...

So all that and we have:

Intel 950
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M 128MB
ATI FireGL V5200 256MB
ATI Mobility Radeon X1400 128MB
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 128MB or 256MB

Here's an excellent thread on the mobile graphics cards:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/archive/index.php?t-39568.html

The Intel 950 is at the bottom of the pile.  The Quadro probably 
classifies as a "low-end" card for 3D performance.  The ATI X1600 is 
supposedly a very good 3D gaming card.  The X1400 is classified as a 
"mid-range" card and the FireGL probably falls into the low-end for 3D 
performance (or it might be mid-range).

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