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These days we can find a whole wide of laptops on the market. Choosing a laptop by it’s display, processor, ram and hard drive space is quite easy but choosing by the variety of video cards found on laptops makes the choosing of the desired laptop quite tricky.

If you don’t know, based on the tutorial from notebookreview forum there are five different kind of mobile graphic chips : integrated video chips that get their memory from the laptop’s ram, low-end graphic processors, mod end, high end and performance graphic processors. Check the notebookreview forum thread with the tutorial to find out what are the differences between the 5 types of graphic processors and the sorted chart by performances.

During March Apple has got the 5th place on the retail notebook sales with a 9.9% market share finding itself behind Toshiba, HP and Gateway and ahead of Compaq. The elegant and powerful line of notebooks sold by Apple and equipped with Intel processors, the MacBook and MacBoook Pro has propelled Apple in the top 5 notebook producers for the first time in this year.

The results offered by NPD, a well known market research firm also show a decrease of market share in the Apple’s line of audio and video players. The iPod has lost slowly and steady points of share from 72.7% in January to 68.9% in March mainly on the favor of SanDisk which increased it’s market share to 11.2% from 8.9%. Although with an interesting audio product (Zune), Microsoft has kept a constant share on the market having only a slight slice of 2.5%.

Information Source : Apple Insider