Dell Inspiron 6000: Integrated or Dedicated?

[fortynine]

Greetings,
I'm planning to get a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook with these specs:

1. Pentium M 760 (2.0GHz)
2. 1024 MB DDR2 RAM (512MBx2)
3. 80GB HDD

Now i'm torn between having an integrated graphic chip (intel media accelerator) or a dedicated ATi Mobility Radeon x300 with 128MB VRAM. i've been reading reviews and forum posts for the past few days and so far i'd conclude that dedicated graphic is just for semi-serious and serious gamers only. i'm planning to run photoshop CS2 and autoCAD 2006 on this machine. will probably play a little counterstrike or quake 3.

as you might have guessed, my question is, should i go for the dedicated graphic chip or will i be fine with the integrated one? i'm in malaysia and the difference would be around RM400 (that's about 1++ USD). i wouldn't mind paying the extra bucks, but if i don't need it, why should i pay for it?

a technical question: it it true that having a dedicated graphic chip will render better colors in the images in photoshop? this sounds a little ridiculous to me... i thought VRAM only helps in terms of speeding things up?

[Zombie]

I'm buying an inspirion 6000 myself (1.6ghz, 1g ram) but I'm getting my own video card. I don't trust the integrated graphics for anything, video editing or gaming. If you read my own post about the laptop it explains I'm going to buy my own video card (an ATI mobility x700) which is the midrange card. It actually cheaper than the one listed by dell. Though shipping availability might be hard for you. I'm willing to help you out if there arn't any people who ship to Malaysia.

EDIT: You're also going to have higher resolutions with a dedicated graphics card

[fortynine]

thanks for the info. i appreciate the offer, but even if i could pay for the x700 (how much would it cost, btw?), i will prolly have difficulties installing it. would it be as easy as installing video cards on a desktop PC? i had experiences with desktops, but notebook is on a whole different level (this is my first notebook). besides, i wouldn't want to void the warranty by opening up the chassis.