Question about notebooks...please help

[atlas101]

Could someone give me an explanation and an opinion on the effectivness of shared video RAM?

I am trying to make a decision between two notebooks Sony 630 and Toshiba s201, i have a big credit at bestbuy, thats why these are my rather dismal options...see them compared here

http://www.bestbuy.com/compare.asp?...;18=11027498&txtCount=21&x=29&y=9

I am planning on using one of these to edit video, not to demanding on Vram but i would really like to have at least 8mb.
The Toshiba has a savage 8mb chip and the sony a "Trident CyberBlade i7 graphics chip with 2/4/8MB video RAM (shared"
Does this give me the ability to allocate 8mb to vram? Will it run as fast as the savage with 8mb fixed?
Any comments you guys could give me would really help me out...

edit: i can't spell

 

[AndyHui]

Shared video RAM will be slow. The system allocates a chunk of RAM out of the system RAM and assigns it to the video subsystem. Your total RAM available to Windows will be reduced; you will also have both the system and RAM accessing the banks, which will slow it down as well.

Trident video card chipsets are crap.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Even the Savage is better than Trident. That's saying a lot

And ditto to what Andy said

 

[atlas101]

This is not what i want to hear people. The sony laptop already has a firewire port and an extreemly overpriced patch to capture video straight into premire. i'll try another question, does anyone have opinions on the amd k6-2+ chips vs Celerons, i would rather have neither but since i gotta make a choice...

 

[Angrymarshmello]

If it's not what you wanted to hear, why did you ask? Andy answered your question like you asked.

 

[AndyHui]

I would prefer the Celeron.

What's so good about the video capture if it is overpriced?

Frankly, laptops are a poor choice of platform if you want to do video editing and transfer.

 

[atlas101]

sorry i must have been unclear, none of the firewire card bus' on the market can capture directly into premire, without an expensive patch from adobe. However with the sony you don't need it. still looking for opinions on processors...anyone know where i can find benchmarks? Oh and i can only spend the credit on a laptop...thats why im stuck editing on this.