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I have read that it is not desirable to buy a laptop which has its video
system shared with the computer's system RAM. However, it seems that most of
the cheaper laptops do not have a dedicated video/ graphics chip, they are
usually shared. Is this sharing of memory an important drawback of such
laptops, or would it be noticeable only when playing high-end games that
need a lot of graphics power? Would the playing back of films / videos be
satisfactory when viewing them on laptops where the video is shared with the
system's main memory?

I have been looking at an Acer Aspire 1694WLMi laptop which has an
integrated ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB chip. Would this chip be sharing
with the computer's system memory, or is it a dedicated video chip? Would
this chip be suitable for video editing and for playing car racing games
etc? Thanks for your help.

Gary

"Gary L T" <> wrote in news::

> I have read that it is not desirable to buy a laptop which has its
> video system shared with the computer's system RAM. However, it seems
> that most of the cheaper laptops do not have a dedicated video/
> graphics chip, they are usually shared. Is this sharing of memory an
> important drawback of such laptops, or would it be noticeable only
> when playing high-end games that need a lot of graphics power?


Yes

Would
> the playing back of films / videos be satisfactory when viewing them
> on laptops where the video is shared with the system's main memory?

Yes


>
> I have been looking at an Acer Aspire 1694WLMi laptop which has an
> integrated ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB chip. Would this chip be
> sharing with the computer's system memory, or is it a dedicated video
> chip?

Don't know

Would this chip be suitable for video editing
Probably not

and for playing
> car racing games etc?

New ones, from 2005, no

Thanks for your help.
>
> Gary
>
>
>



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Ciao, Dave

Hi, a X700 is a good chip to have and will play all high end games just
fine. My own laptop has a X600 with only 64mb's of ram and it plays Doom3,
HL2 just fine at quite hig settings. If you want to look at these forums
you'll probably find an answer to your question on video editing.....
http://www.notebookforums.com/forumd...91636ba5&f=135
http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22
Cheers,
ChrisC
"Dave Taylor" <> wrote in message
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> "Gary L T" <> wrote in news::
>
>> I have read that it is not desirable to buy a laptop which has its
>> video system shared with the computer's system RAM. However, it seems
>> that most of the cheaper laptops do not have a dedicated video/
>> graphics chip, they are usually shared. Is this sharing of memory an
>> important drawback of such laptops, or would it be noticeable only
>> when playing high-end games that need a lot of graphics power?
>
>
> Yes
>
> Would
>> the playing back of films / videos be satisfactory when viewing them
>> on laptops where the video is shared with the system's main memory?
>
> Yes
>
>
>>
>> I have been looking at an Acer Aspire 1694WLMi laptop which has an
>> integrated ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB chip. Would this chip be
>> sharing with the computer's system memory, or is it a dedicated video
>> chip?
>
> Don't know
>
> Would this chip be suitable for video editing
> Probably not
>
> and for playing
>> car racing games etc?
>
> New ones, from 2005, no
>
> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ciao, Dave

Gary - one mistake I made was to buy a laptop with an "Intel Celereon"
processor - stay away from these; as the more software used, the slower
it gets despite good RAM ... wish I had paid a little more and got a
genuine Intel "Pentium" or even AMD series processor - eg Athlon etc

Mel

Gary L T wrote:
> I have read that it is not desirable to buy a laptop which has its video
> system shared with the computer's system RAM. However, it seems that most of
> the cheaper laptops do not have a dedicated video/ graphics chip, they are
> usually shared. Is this sharing of memory an important drawback of such
> laptops, or would it be noticeable only when playing high-end games that
> need a lot of graphics power? Would the playing back of films / videos be
> satisfactory when viewing them on laptops where the video is shared with the
> system's main memory?
>
> I have been looking at an Acer Aspire 1694WLMi laptop which has an
> integrated ATI Mobility Radeon X700 128MB chip. Would this chip be sharing
> with the computer's system memory, or is it a dedicated video chip? Would
> this chip be suitable for video editing and for playing car racing games
> etc? Thanks for your help.
>
> Gary
>
>

Mel wrote:
> Gary - one mistake I made was to buy a laptop with an "Intel Celereon"
> processor - stay away from these; as the more software used, the slower
> it gets despite good RAM ... wish I had paid a little more and got a
> genuine Intel "Pentium" or even AMD series processor - eg Athlon etc
>
> Mel
>

True.

Not to be confused with the Celeron M series processors, which are based
on the more efficient Penitum M cores.

"ChrisC" <cuke2u(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, a X700 is a good chip to have and will play all high end games just
> fine. My own laptop has a X600 with only 64mb's of ram and it plays Doom3,
> HL2 just fine at quite hig settings. If you want to look at these forums
> you'll probably find an answer to your question on video editing.....
> http://www.notebookforums.com/forumd...91636ba5&f=135
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22
> Cheers,
> ChrisC

Thanks for this information, most helpful, a dedicated laptop forum is a
good idea!

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
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> Mel wrote:
>> Gary - one mistake I made was to buy a laptop with an "Intel Celereon"
>> processor - stay away from these; as the more software used, the slower
>> it gets despite good RAM ... wish I had paid a little more and got a
>> genuine Intel "Pentium" or even AMD series processor - eg Athlon etc
>>
>> Mel
>>
>
> True.
>
> Not to be confused with the Celeron M series processors, which are based
> on the more efficient Penitum M cores.

I was told that the Celeron M chips, that are on many lower cost notebooks,
would not be suitable for playing games etc, as they were too slow compared
with the Intel Centrino series. In other words, there must be quite a big
difference between the Celeron M and the Centrino chips?

Gary

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:45:51 +1200, "Gary L T" <> wrote:

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>"Daniel" <> wrote in message
>news:df323m$5h9$...
>> Mel wrote:
>>> Gary - one mistake I made was to buy a laptop with an "Intel Celereon"
>>> processor - stay away from these; as the more software used, the slower
>>> it gets despite good RAM ... wish I had paid a little more and got a
>>> genuine Intel "Pentium" or even AMD series processor - eg Athlon etc
>>>
>>> Mel
>>>
>>
>> True.
>>
>> Not to be confused with the Celeron M series processors, which are based
>> on the more efficient Penitum M cores.
>
>I was told that the Celeron M chips, that are on many lower cost notebooks,
>would not be suitable for playing games etc, as they were too slow compared
>with the Intel Centrino series. In other words, there must be quite a big
>difference between the Celeron M and the Centrino chips?
>
>Gary
>

Don't get Pentium M confused with Centrino. Centrino itself is not a
type of processor but a marketing phrase used by Intel.

http://www.intel.com/products/centrino/

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Gary L T wrote:
>
> I was told that the Celeron M chips, that are on many lower cost notebooks,
> would not be suitable for playing games etc, as they were too slow compared
> with the Intel Centrino series. In other words, there must be quite a big
> difference between the Celeron M and the Centrino chips?
>
> Gary
>
As DoggNZ stated, Centrino is not a chip, but more of a marketing label
made up by Intel.

However, Centrino laptops do use Pentium M's (in addition to an Intel
chipset, and Intel wireless technology).

Considering the Celeron M's are basically the same chips as the Pentium
M's - AFAIK, with the main differences being the cache (512K/1MB vs
1MB/2MB), and FSB speed, I'd be surprised if there was significant
difference between those CPUs running at the same clock speed. Unlike
the Pentium 4 vs "normal" Celeron.

Hi, yw, hope they are of good use in your search....
ChrisC
"Gary L T" <> wrote in message news:43153465$...
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> "ChrisC" <cuke2u(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4314651f$0$1280$...
>> Hi, a X700 is a good chip to have and will play all high end games just
>> fine. My own laptop has a X600 with only 64mb's of ram and it plays
>> Doom3, HL2 just fine at quite hig settings. If you want to look at these
>> forums you'll probably find an answer to your question on video
>> editing.....
>> http://www.notebookforums.com/forumd...91636ba5&f=135
>> http://forum.notebookreview.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22
>> Cheers,
>> ChrisC
>
> Thanks for this information, most helpful, a dedicated laptop forum is a
> good idea!
>
>