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I had brought a HP laptop some 2 years back which had NVIDIA Graphics card installed (GeForce 230 M to be precise). My computer vendor told that NVIDIA doesn't goes well with laptop and i should go for AMD or ATI in near future, if i am planning to buy a laptop.

My Question: Which among three; NVIDIA, AMD or ATI is the recommended graphics card for the laptop. My usage is medium (i do play games but not high end gaming) Plus is my computer vendor saying correct?

Please guide!

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AMD bought ATI so they are the same thing - ATI where always the main competitor to NVIDIA in the graphics industry. Your vendor is incorrect - both manufacturers have 'mobile' graphics chips made for laptops. It may well be the vendor prefers a particular make, or has less isues with ATI cards than NVIDIA in their laptops. – HaydnWVN Jan 10 at 8:06
this really looks like a purchase recommendation to me.Depending on your games, the graphics built into both the intel sandy bridge, and current AMD APU platforms should be good enough for basic gaming purposes, so you may not need a discrete card at all – Journeyman Geek Jan 10 at 8:26
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NVIDIA, driver support for multiple OS platforms. I have never had issues when using NVIDIA hardware on any platform. Whether the platform is a laptop or a desktop with Linux or Windows. A good laptop vendor I have used is Asus. I have a laptop from them that is 5+ years old and is still running great with a 6600 class GPU in it.

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