Invisible wrote:
>>> I don't own a copy either. In fact, I don't see why any image
>>> manipulation program wouldn't do their turf on many GPU cores instead...
>>
>> That too, assuming you *have* a GPU. Do laptops have decent GPUs these
>> days? I know there are a lot of machines with Intel built-in graphics
>> type stuff using normal system memory for the graphics memory, but I
>> don't know if that means they're not 3D-accelerated ornot.
> 
> My laptop has a "nVidia GeForce 8200 Mobile GPU".
> 
> Key phrase being "mobile"... It does play CounterStrike: Source, however.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_GMA

It looks like even the cheap integrated graphics chips do DirectX9, so I 
guess you could pretty much rely on pixel shaders for photoshop.

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