4th November 2005, 5:05 PM
Laptop video "cards" are almost always integrated right into the system, though generally based on existing tech. Tell us GR, what video card do you have? Don't say "none", go into system properties and the hardware manager. If you truly didn't have any video card, you couldn't see anything.
Laptop integrated cards are REALLY above the curve set by desktop integrated. My mother happens to have a GEForce 4 integrated into her laptop.
As for the drawing of processing power from the main CPU, that is sometimes very true, and soemtimes not so much. It's certainly been the case with all the desktops I've used. However, my mother's laptop doesn't seem to suffer from that, so I take it they integrated a seperate GPU. They would sort of have to considering the architecture of the thing though.... But anyway, point is neither of the things you two mentioned are constants.
Laptop integrated cards are REALLY above the curve set by desktop integrated. My mother happens to have a GEForce 4 integrated into her laptop.
As for the drawing of processing power from the main CPU, that is sometimes very true, and soemtimes not so much. It's certainly been the case with all the desktops I've used. However, my mother's laptop doesn't seem to suffer from that, so I take it they integrated a seperate GPU. They would sort of have to considering the architecture of the thing though.... But anyway, point is neither of the things you two mentioned are constants.
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