I am about to buy a new laptop and now I'm faced with the question: should I opt in for an Intel X3100 graphics card or a Nvidia NVS 135M card?
Of course I do have priorities: the main priority is power consumption. Usually the natural choice would be X3100, however, the NVS 135M can also be cooled passive, so I wonder if the difference is that big.
The Dell guys (yes, it is about a D630) mentioned that the laptop would consume around 1/3 more power in office use, with a battery time of around 4 hours instead of 6 hours, but that was for Windows usage and Windows drivers. Do you have similar or different experiences?
Besides the power consumption an important point for me is the fan noise: my current laptop drives me mad, and I need something silent...
The other priority is Blue Ray: there are more and more discs around and if I will keep my laptop for years I should keep in mind to upgrade it later on with a Blue Ray drive. However, according to this chart Blue Ray only works on Intel's X3100 with "the use of a third-party decoder card and appropriate software drivers."
I wasn't able to find similar information about the NVS 135M, does that mean that everything should just work?
Of course I do have priorities: the main priority is power consumption. Usually the natural choice would be X3100, however, the NVS 135M can also be cooled passive, so I wonder if the difference is that big.
The Dell guys (yes, it is about a D630) mentioned that the laptop would consume around 1/3 more power in office use, with a battery time of around 4 hours instead of 6 hours, but that was for Windows usage and Windows drivers. Do you have similar or different experiences?
Besides the power consumption an important point for me is the fan noise: my current laptop drives me mad, and I need something silent...
The other priority is Blue Ray: there are more and more discs around and if I will keep my laptop for years I should keep in mind to upgrade it later on with a Blue Ray drive. However, according to this chart Blue Ray only works on Intel's X3100 with "the use of a third-party decoder card and appropriate software drivers."
I wasn't able to find similar information about the NVS 135M, does that mean that everything should just work?
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