Is there life without a discrete video adapter?

Question

Iron

Hello, I choose a laptop in the price range up to 45k rubles. At the moment I settled on Dell Vostro (i5 6200U/930M/4Gb), however, when searching in a similar price range, there are many laptops without discrete video (5th and 6th generation Intel processors inside). Accordingly, the question arose: what are integrated video adapters capable of in real life (and are they capable of anything at all?). Will they be suitable for such a range of tasks: coding in Python, Photoshop (once or twice a week), gatherings on the Internet, sometimes movies and toys like Borderlands? How do such video adapters with autonomy relative to discrete solutions? Well, I’ll take offtopic advice on choosing a laptop model (the benchmark is autonomy from 3.5-4 hours of loads below average).

Answer 1

You don't need a discrete graphics card for your tasks. The available integrated video chips do a good job with 4K video.
Playing without a discreet in something newer will not work. But for this it is easier to buy a console.

Answer 2

I don't buy discrete video as a matter of principle. For work - only built-in Intel.
Less overheating, fewer accidents. More than half of laptop failures in my practice are overheating of the video chip, especially AMD suffers.
So embedded video is now quite a decent option, especially with a good processor.

Answer 3

sometimes movies and toys like Borderlands

If you like a movie in a large cell and a cartoon instead of a game, you can do without it. NVIDIA is not only for the beauty and speed of games, it can improve video (enhance clarity, balance color, etc.).