IS the GEFORCE Go 6600 TE 128MB DEDICATED or INTEG

oymd

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I was gonna buy a Toshiba Laptop, the TECRA M3 with a Geforce Go TE 6600 chipset with 128MB of DEDICATED memory (TE for turbo Edition)....but Wusy and Crash told me its a SHARED or INTEGRATED chipset??? is that true??

check it out:

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cde...6367&famoid=-26374&coid=-28868&seg=HHO


at toshiba...when u customize the TECRA M3...u get FOUR OPTIONS:

1- nVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6200 TE 64M w/dedicated 64MB SDRAM and NO Bluetooth (Antenna only) Must choose NO Bluetooth (Antenna Only) below

2- nVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6600 TE 128M w/dedicated 128MB SDRAM and NO Bluetooth (Antenna only) [add $75.00] Must choose NO Bluetooth (Antenna Only) below

3- Bluetooth enabled: nVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6200 TE 64M w/dedicated 64MB SDRAM and Bluetooth v1.2 [FREE] Must choose Bluetooth v1.2 below

4- Bluetooth enabled: nVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6600 TE 128M w/dedicated 128MB SDRAM and Bluetooth v1.2 [add $75.00] Must choose Bluetooth v1.2 below


???

It looks like a dedicated GPU ...isnt it


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folken

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The GPU and video ram will be dedicated. But card might be physically part of the laptop's motherboard, not a separate card.
The graphics card might have shared components if the laptop had an nforce chipset but it looks like it has an Intel chipset so I doubt any sharing is going on.

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