mobility radeon 9600 pro and memory

I've been planning to buy HP nc8000 with 1.6 centrino, 512Mt ram, 40Gb HD, 15" sxga+ display. Then I found out that all the current versions of nc8000 available here in Finland are with 64 of video memory. Customer service had no idea if nc8000's will be ever shipped with 128mt video memory. So,is there a significant performance difference between radeon 9600 pro with 64Mt and 128 Mt?

There won't be much difference at all. The extra 64MB of graphics memory will only really help in really large textured maps and/or games. In 95% of the games that you are likely to play they will perform the same, if ANYTHING, the 128MB model will perform slower (as they might decide to cut costs and stick in slower RAM, albeit more...), as was first illustrated with the GeForce 4 Ti range of graphics cards. The 128MB card is mostly marketing, and won't offer you much advantage in your typical game. If you had say, a 9800Pro, it would be a different story, but since thats not going to be available in notebooks, its not really worth thinking about.

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