new laptop videocard upgrade or not

[spacoli]

Hi to all, I love forums, the people on forums are usally so helpful and want to share their advice, thoughts and opinions. Hope to get some good advice here thanks in advance.

I'm planning on buying a Dell Vostro 1500 with these specs. and have a few questions.

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7100 1.8GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB (upgraded from 1.4GHz), 2 meg ram, 200g 7200 hard drive(upgrade from 160mb 5400rpm), Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition

The video card is a Intel integrated graphics media accelerator x3100. I will be using this laptop for internet, watching down loaded video clips, pictures storage and editing, burning and such. No gaming at all. Would this Intel integrated graphics media accelerator x3100 be fine for what I'm doing or should I upgrade to a 128mb NVIDIA GeForce 8400m GS for $100.?

I upgraded the hard drive and processor speed already and I would like to keep the cost down and not get anything I wouldn't realy benifit from.

Would is be or is it hard to add this upgraded video card later?

Any thoughts or advice would be helpful.

Thanks

 

[soccerdude]

I would upgrade.

 

[Travis30384]

Upgrade. I have found out that with my laptop, specs in sig, does not perform well at all when multitasking or watching good videos. I have to upgrade the ram soon, so I can increase the shared vram. UPGRADE!!! unless you're really on a hugely small budget

 

[spacoli]

Upgrade. I have found out that with my laptop, specs in sig, does not perform well at all when multitasking or watching good videos. I have to upgrade the ram soon, so I can increase the shared vram. UPGRADE!!! unless you're really on a hugely small budget

Ok if I upgrade the vid card, should I down grade the processor speed to 1.6 to offset the cost? I use a 5 yr old pentium 4 1.6 desktop now.

1.6, vid card $837.

1.8, no card 793.

1.8, with card $893.

Thanks