Sony FS Integrated graphics vs Dedicated?

Sony is introducing a new notebook series FS. I saw that it has 128 integrated graphics that shares with 512 main memory. They also have the Sony A250 that has 64 mb of dedicated graphics RAM.

I would like to download video from a Mini DV to a laptop and do some minor home movie editing, transitions and burning to a DVD.

My question is it better to get the Sony A-250 with 64 meg of dedicated graphics or the newer FS with 128 integrated graphics?

I know that integrated graphics shares the main memory and is generally less desirable but I thought I could always put in more main memory to make up for the sharing of memory.

The A250 has 64MB:

ATI Mobility™ Radeon™ 9200
64MB Video RAM


The newer FS has 128MB:

Intel® 915GM Integrated Graphics
128MB Dynamic Video Memory
(shared with main memory)

 

actually, no, the FS does have a dedicated card option with the Nvidia Geforce Go6200 at 128 MB VRAM...but for your case, home movie editing and all that, i would think that 64 mb might just make the cut, but 128 would be excellently on the safe side...

 

(i think), this is based on a post from another section and is referred to as the F series, not FS, i dunno if thats the same thing, but it sounds like the same.

 

There seem to be different versions of that series of notebooks announced in Europe, America and Japan. The European and Asian/Japanese versions can be got with Geforce graphics, the American ones only with integrated Intel graphics. While the Intel graphics are definitely quite a bit slower than the (more or less ) dedicated card, they have improved a lot with Sonoma.

 

The Japanese FS170 also gets WSXGA, which would be very tasty.

Steve

Sony A190 WUXGA

 

Anyone knows if we can expect a version of FS with WSXGA and 2.0 or 2.1 GHz Pentium M in europe anytime soon?
I can't even find the FS series listed on vaio-europe web page yet.