Macbook Graphics Card

[MikefUK]

Hi

Sorry if this has been covered in another post, but I was wondering about the Intel GMA X3100 graphics card: I shall soon be getting my first Macbook (the white one, not the new metal one) and was wondering if this is a decent graphics card (or why the new macbooks are using NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and not Intel)?

I dont know a great deal about this computer subject, and my use of the macbook will be simply for watching movies, playing itunes, running a few applications (mostly photo editing stuff) and surfing multilple web pages. I wont be using this machine for any gaming.

Will this Intel graphics card provide me with superb display and crystal clear imagery, or is it just pretty standard?

Many thanks

 

[claimed4all]

Its pretty standard but you will be just fine with it. The Nvidia is a better card, but you would more than likely not notice the difference between the two for the tasks you described.

 

[leman]

Any graphics card will povide you with "superb display and crystal clear imagery". Modern graphic cards are more about 3D graphics, the 2D output is about equal with any model/vendor. Hovewer, 9400M will be a better experience, as it provides better performance/quality movie decoding and OS X visuals like image preview, Expose etc. (OS X uses 3d acceleration for it's window rendering). Anyway, if you don't game, X3100 will be ok.