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Intel® HD Graphics can this be good for SL?
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Rolig Loon 26,634
Don't do it. SL does not work well on notebooks anyway, and SL residents have had particular problems with Intel HD graphics chips. Please do a search in these forums, using the keywords Intel HD to see the kinds of serious complaints people have had. In order to get acceptable performance in SL, you should at least get a laptop computer, avoiding anything that has a switchable graphics chip on the motherboard. Look for a machine that has a replaceable graphics card, preferably an NVidia card. You will discover that you can buy a desktop computer with good to excellent graphics quality for Second Life for less money than an equivalent laptop, BTW.
One final thought ...... Second Life, like all other programs, keeps upgrading all the time. Every time they add more features, the software requires slightly better hardware than it used to. Over time -- a year or two -- a computer that was once perfectly good for SL becomes obsolete, unable to run the current versions of SL viewers. As a result, if you are buying a new computer, the best advice is to buy a machine that does much more than meet SL's minimum standards. "Acceptable" is not good enough.
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