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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 4992555" data-attributes="member: 149">That's where the "avoid the integrated graphics" comes in and the list of decent basic video cards. Pretty much any system with a PCIe video card will be able to do the 1080p. IME, integrated graphics are a sign that you should simply avoid the computer, if there are no options for upgrading that.According to all the testing I've seen. Most people can not tell the differences between 1080i/720p and 1080p on less than a 50" TV. Now I'm talking about video not still images. 30 frames per second covers up a multitude of sins in individual video frames.I've seen a lot of comparison threads showing the same frame from the DVD and the Blu ray disks and while there is a clear difference most of the time, you do have to look for the small details to tell the difference. It's at best an incremental difference, not a night and day one. They can scale to the larger size, you don't have to scale them. A lot of the time you are better off not scaling the videos. A small "sharp" video is better than a large, fuzzy, pixilated image IME.This was basically my point about "number of pixels not being directly related to picture quality".That's a bad example. It only shows that you don't bother to close tabs. The number of tabs you have open is irrelevant to how much processing power you need. HTML rendering simply doesn't require that much of a processor and you're only rendering the one tab showing in any case. I've often had a ton of "tabs" up while doing a bunch of other things on a fairly low powered machine at work and it didn't slow things down in the slightest. A dual core gives you at least one core for system tasks and one for what ever your "primary" activity is. Very, very few people are doing something or using software that requires more than that.As far as "typical" users go, that is rather the point of asking the OP questions about what they need isn't it?</blockquote>

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