On the Mac there will be increasing amounts of processing carried out by the
GPU; I should think that the same will happen across other OSs as well. So a
GPU might be necessary if you are carrying out intensive editing on large
images.
But my little MacBook Air, with its integrated GPU and 1.6GHz i5, works just
fine with images from a digital camera
Chris
On 30 Jun 2012, at 06:15, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> So you would say that for regular (still) photo editing there is no need
> for a fancy graphics card, and the embedded video capabilities of the
> motherboard are sufficient? That's very interesting.
> I had always assumed (and the probably ill-informed salespeople were happy
> to confirm) that if 'I want to use it for Photo editing' ---> 'Well Sir,
> you'll need this fancy graphics card'.
> I guess there's still the issue of shared RAM to be avoided...
> cheers
> jez
>
> On 28 June 2012 05:05, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I think the new
>> Z77 mother boards support dual display, you may not need a seperate graphic
>> card. You can put the extra money for a faster processor.
>
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