Will it be worth it for me to get a discrete graphics card?

[TheChort]

I'm looking to get the IBM Thinkpad. I'm offered one of these two options:
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (128MB)
Intel GMA X3100 GM965

The GMA cuts my costs a bit, but as far as I understand will drain part of the sytems RAM to make its own VRAM.

From the little research I've done, gamers are always recommending not going with the integrated graphics card. But I'm having trouble finding any info on this regarding digital photography.

 

[ashishmishra]

If the system is not going to be used for any 3D gaming then I would say it is safe to get the integrated graphics. If you are getting it with Windows Vista, I would recommend that you buy it with no less than 2GB RAM especially if you are getting integrated graphics which will use some system ram. I have a gateway with C2D 1.73 2GB RAM GMA950 Windows Vista, and it is as fast as my system in sig for most day to day tasks.

 

[TheChort]

Originally posted by: ashishmishra
If the system is not going to be used for any 3D gaming then I would say it is safe to get the integrated graphics. If you are getting it with Windows Vista, I would recommend that you buy it with no less than 2GB RAM especially if you are getting integrated graphics which will use some system ram. I have a gateway with C2D 1.73 2GB RAM GMA950 Windows Vista, and it is as fast as my system in sig for most day to day tasks.

thanks
I'll probably get 3gigs of ram.
And as far as the video card, I'm pretty sold on the integrated one. Plus, they're supposed to keep the system cooler, so definitely a plus 🙂