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Thank you for your response. This is a good start from which to start my investigations. My application is audio
and MIDI recording. With my current laptop I get too much latency when recording using MIDI devices. A Toshiba
repair technician told me that having a separate video card would enhance throughput and solve this problem.
I leaning toward the Mac PC as they have probably focused their layout and drivers to deal with these multimedia
issues.
thanks
Olushola
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From: "Thomas Harold" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New laptop purchase
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: NVIDIAŽ QuadroŽ NVS 110M with 128MB DDR memory, plus up to
128MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIAŽ
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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