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Question

New laptop specs

Sep 26, 2015 12:11AM PDT

I intend to buy a new laptop - primary use is MS Office, watching movies / live webstreams and browsing. However, I do use it for video editing occasionally using a software called "Pinnacle Studio MovieBox". This software has a reqmnt for "direct x 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 128 MB"

Currently I have HP G42-478TX, which works great.

As I look to buy a new laptop, if I go for an i3/i5 intel core processor (windows 8/10) laptop with Integrated graphics card (NO dedicated graphics card), will it be sufficient to run the above software? Or will I need a dedicated NVIDIA type graphics card ?

Thanks

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The spec
Sep 26, 2015 7:00AM PDT
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Re: the spec
Sep 28, 2015 3:58AM PDT

Thanks a lot Proffitt, will go ahead with an intel integrated graphics laptop - saves quite some money !