I'm looking to buy a decent i7 (probably 2760qm) based laptop as a desktop replacement on which I will mainly want to work hooked up to an external 1920x1080 monitor on an extended desktop basis (using Windows 7) with the laptop's own display becoming the second screen. How important is the graphics card in such a scenario?
Should I be looking for something with a separate graphics card or will the i7 cope well enough running both displays without any noticeable slowdown? I'll running occasionally processor intensive but graphically light software (i.e. MS Visual Studio) most of the time, with the occasional use of Flash. No gaming capability required though. Thanks!
Should I be looking for something with a separate graphics card or will the i7 cope well enough running both displays without any noticeable slowdown? I'll running occasionally processor intensive but graphically light software (i.e. MS Visual Studio) most of the time, with the occasional use of Flash. No gaming capability required though. Thanks!