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Old Feb 22, 2007 | 11:52 am
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nd_eric_77
 
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Originally Posted by MapleLeaf
ok help me here understand 1 thing.

The PC I am looking at has 288 mb of shared RAM for video, the Mac book only has either 64 or 128 MB - doesn't that mean it is inferior in terms of graphic capabilities?
No; the video memory on the Mac is dedicated memory. The shared RAM on the PC is actually system RAM which gets used for video. IME, dedicated video RAM generally performs better than shared RAM in almost all scenarios (even when the difference in MBs is so large). YMMV.
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