It's an ok video card.

When you buy a laptop your stuck with the video card you get. Most of the video cards can't be removed without a solderer. Unless your planning on hard core gaming I'd say that your fine by that.

AMD is MUCH cheaper than Intel, and until the Intel Core Duo's came out, Intel admitted they were almost 3 years behind the technology of AMD's Athlon 64 processors. Intel didn't really ever improve the Pentium 4, they put all of their effort into the new Core Duo's.

Intel is generally faster loading apps, boot process, and the new ones use MUCH less power, therefore prolonging battery life. AMD's are still nice processors, but they are not as highly ranked as the newer intels anymore.