Nvidia Card Question

Well, I'm personalizing my laptop on HP, and I'm putting the best of the best in it. I will use it for business only, and no gaming. Is the Nvidia card just for gaming, or will I see a performance difference?

 

It will also help if you watch HD movies on it. What GPU will it have?

 

Only if you use DXVA, which is quite uncommon.

 

What type of business??

Try to run GPU acceleration in Photoshop CS4 on an Intel card - oddly enough the X3100 will result in a Photoshop crash (not uncommon, but not for everyone).

If your business has anything that can be GPU accelerated, then yes, you would benefit from an NVidia GPU.

Maybe you could state your busness uses?

 

It will be for graphic design, like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and personal use, like music, videos, internet, the usual... I think that I could save a hundred and get the Intel card, and it would still look great, no?

 

If you actually work with graphics design I highly recommend the NVidia card.

Yes, of course its possible to run it on an Intel card - but the X3100 ends up in Photoshop crashes and the likes.

Photoshop will benefit from an NVidia card with graphics acceleration.
Video - editing, depends onthe software, watching - doesn't matter.

Edit:
I have the Web Design Suite from Adobe - Student Price as a student - it doesn't work well on the Intel X3100 for me, no idea about the X4500.
But the bits that did work in Photoshop made a difference.

 

Yeah, I want to save the money from the Nvidia card, get the 500 GB HD, and I'm not a hardcore graphic designer, I just work with Photoshop, Illustrator etc. The Intel Card is the 4500MHD, not the X3100 or X4500...the X4500 isn't the same is the 4500MHD, is it?

 

Its the same idea with a littl diference.

i.e. strictly speaking its not the same - just like you can get a car with different engines.

I'm not exactly sure what the differences are.

About the graphics design.
My hobby is photography - EOS 400D - and I have CS4 (student price).

It is better with graphics acceleration if you do things like panorama stitiching, HDRs too - but the moment I try to use Photoshop it crashes.
(croping an image in Photoshop for example - in camera RAW it works however)
It can be OpenGL related.

Thus - I would really recommend the NVidia.

What's the price difference?

 

id think of it this way, get the nvidia gpu which is not upgradeable and upgrage the hdd which is upgradeable later on when i need it.

 

That's a good suggestion.

Or easier, buy an external HDD.
Works too

 

Technically, I believe the X4500 is the desktop version. The M in 4500 MHD refers to the mobile part.

 

You're probably right, I have a 500 GB external anyway, and you said that with the Nvidia card, Photoshop DOESN'T crash, right?

 

I haven't tried.

But: The NVidia cards are officically supported

The Intel card is not (!!!) officially supported.

 

Woo Hoo, thank you good Notebook Prophet, the Nvidia has 256 MB of dedicated memory, and I'll get the 320 GB hard drive, and use my 500 GB external, I think that 820 GB of hard drive should work! I can hardly wait until Christmas, thanks everyone!