Q's for a saavy comp guy?!

[DTP-Gen.Ramy]

Right, well i just got enough money to spend in a computer and im head over heals over Dell's M1330. I have an option of customizing it but the price of doing so would mean that I would spend all my money, so i am seriously thinking of purchasing the stock version. but am concerned about a few things..

First off, i get two options as far as a graphics card...the stock
Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 and the choice to upgrade to Invidia's 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS

My question is that..if i settle for the intergrated graphics will i be making a 'huge' mistake? in other words...is the difference between the stock and upgrade THAT big of a difference?. i that know nvidea is great for multimedia BUT plz note that i will only be using it for games such as bhd, battlefield 2, and MAYBE 2 other games (fear/css). my primary concern is if these games are comparable with the intergrated graphics card...if so, will i still be able to enjoy them with the quality the graphic card will give me?

sorry for the long post but yeah..processor wise, i get three choices, Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250, T7100, and T7500. the t7500 is out of the question. so its between the stock T5250, or the upgrade T7100...again consider that the biggest "power hungry application" i will b using besides gaming will probably be photoshop..

so yeah those are my 2 questions...but fyi..
.. i plan to get 2GB shared dual channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667Mhz of RAM and a 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM) Hard drive (btw im not concerned about hard drive space since i have a huge external hardrive where i store all my music movies ect...) and as far as RAM goes it IS upgradable to 4GB but its 300$ more so yeah im sticking to 2GB and maybe in the future if needed ill add more...
..so yeah please reply with ur opinion but please make sure u keep in mind that i really wanna keep things stock because of my budget, so yeah if u dont think i need it dont tell me to upgrade it cause i really wanna have some money left over to spend...
TY in advance 'praise'

[DTP-Gen.Ramy]

uh...bump...

[DTP PIRATE]

Hi Ramy,
Been having a look at reviews etc of the machine you like,looks cool.I was looking at those earlier this year when my dear lady needed a new lappy,got a good deal on an HP machine eventually though.
Your set of options seems good but if you feel the need to upgrade something go for graphics first as most of the things it seems like you`ll be doing would benefit from that.Most programming for games these days makes much more use of the graphics chip,plus the extra 128 mb of ram means its not sharing the cpu`s ram so much, so 2 gb of main ram should be fine for now. It does mean you may need more in the way of battery power if you plan on using it on the move etc.
Sooooooo, definitely graphics first, probably battery, then cpu if you can afford it. DDR2 will get cheaper over time anyway so leave that unless you suddenly feel rich.Its all down to your budget at the end of the day.
Either way it looks a fine machine,

[DTP-Gen.Ramy]

thx alot pirate, i been refreshing this post n searching about it on my own and yeah apparently i should upgrade, and about the battery, by default if u choose the nvidea card they make u get the 6 or 9 cell (default is 4), so ima get the 6 since i will mostly be hooked to a outlet here in my house or in school wen i choose to take it. and i will only need the batt on those rare occassions when it gets unplugged and i dont notice >.< but yea ty