Colleague wants to buy a laptop on a strict budget, and really only wants to do Photoshopping and Word with it. I have advised that a cheap machine with shared graphics will be fine for 2D work, as ...

Ok, I have a x61 laptop and it has a x3100 with shared video memory. The laptop can support up to 4GB. And i'm only using 32-bit Vista. When i stick the 4GB in i get an "extra" 16mb of memory over a ...