Are intergrated graphics a definite no no?

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I looking at changing my desktop for either an all in one system or Laptop. I have seen some good deals but its only the dearer ones that have dedicated graphics cards in them, which is out of my budget. Will one will integrated graphics be up to the job of editing photos using Lightroom 3.3 ans CS2? The laptops etc are starting off with 4gb ram.

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intergrated graphics just means there is a vdu port on your motherboard.... which is useful if your graphics card ever blows! lol... if it's got some spare PCI-e ports then you can always add a graphics adapter at a later date when funds allow... in short - it depends on the CPU and memory in the machine as to wether it will cope with your photo-processing.
 
cheers guys, I currently run a Dell with 2.66 dual core processor, 2GB ram and Geforce 8600GT 256mg graphics card. Looking at possibly changing to a Dell iIspiron 15R laptop. Pentium p6100 2.0 Ghz, 4gb ram and integrated graphics.. so theoretically it should have 3gb left over from graphics.
 
BandyQuill said:
unless your gaming or need multiple monitors i see no point in having an extra VGA card anymore, its not worth the extra cost...
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A cheap discrete graphics card is worth it on a media build, simply because even a cheap, low end ATI 5000 series card supports hardware acceleration for video better than any integrated chip - crucially for h.264. The integrated GPU's on the i3's / i5's arent too bad at it, but a low end modern graphics card will always be better.
 
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