Originally Posted by Andy
Do you really need a dedicated graphic's chip? You basically only really need a 3d accelerator if you play games, which isn't going to work well on an ultraportable processor. I bought my Inspirion 8200 a while back with a 64m Geforce4 card and it's powerful enough to play any DirectX8 game but the battery only lasts maybe 2 hours and it weighs 8 pounds. Looking back, I would have much rather had a <4 lb unit and just played games on a real PC. I like the 700m units from dell, especially with a bigger battery.
Yeah see my current, now-dead HP laptop is a big honker like yours and it has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 which if you ask me is crap even for just displaying Windows. So I think that an integrated graphics chip is going to suck even worse. If I get that Sony I'd still be stepping down from a P4 2 GHz to a P4 1.7 GHz, and that's two whole years after I got the HP!