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Where Video Stands Who buys what and what do people pay?

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eaglescouter

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Where Video Stands Who buys what and what do people pay?

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Ed said:
most video in the PC industry is integrated video, and that the low- and medium-end video cards are slowly being squeezed out of existence.

In the laptop segment I suspect that the heavy reliance upon integrated video is caused primarily lack of choice. There are very few non-integrated options at the (Dell, Intel, Sony, Gateway) large laptop retailers.

I suspect that if more non-integrated options were available, they would be selected.

When joe-six-pack buys a Dell (laptop or desktop), he goes thru the options and decides where to spend any additional budget that he may have available. Unfortunately Dell rarely provides many (if any) non-integrated video card options for the desktops, and choices for laptops are nearly nonexistant.
 
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