Will the integrated Intel graphics card be enough to work (design and programming)?

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Video cards

Hello
, I want to change my desktop PC (Phenom 2 x4 3.6/12gb/gtx 460 hawk/lots of hard drives for backups) to a used laptop. I'm interested in both design and programming, but I haven't chosen one yet. I want to learn more 3d in the future (I already own Cinema4d) and AfterEffect.
Aimed at a laptop (Thinkpad or Asus) with a Core i7 2nd (if with a discrete graphics card) or 3rd generation with 4 cores and 8 threads (2 (4) will probably not be enough), the ability to install 16GB and 2 disks ( 1 - msata or instead of a drive).
But there was a question about the video card. Discrete video cards break down very often (= motherboard replacement) and laptops make noise with them. Although there are laptops with replaceable video cards (Clevo, Eurocom, Sager + gaming MSI and Alienware), but the price ...
Several people advised to take a laptop only with a built-in from Intel. I looked at the characteristics and it turned out that the video card in the 4th generation of Intel processors is at the level of nVidia gt 520M 6 years ago (and even slower in the 3rd generation. 2nd generation - without support for OpenCL (DirectX 11)) and there will be no CUDA from nVidia (Adobe packages seem to use it). Although, on the other hand, many designers somehow work on Macbook and iMac with HD Graphics 4000.
I want to ask you how you work on the built-in? Do you still need a discrete card?
I used to sit on an overclocked built-in Radeon HD 4290 (DirectX 10.1). Photoshop slowed down. I ran fraps and saw that sometimes when painting with a brush, the transformations were 15-18fps. And the 720p video in the browser constantly loaded the map by 95%. I'm afraid that the Intel plug-in can also slow down. Especially in Viewport in Cinema4d
P.S. 99.99% of the time so far it will be on a desk + 2 monitors. Many advise to simply update the computer, but sometimes I don’t have light for a whole day (1 time I didn’t have 10 days). While working on the diploma, this was very disturbing.

Answer 1

For pure programming, the built-in one is enough, for comfortable work with graphics, and as you say in the future 3d is definitely discrete, you can choose the option with switchable graphics: discrete + intel 4000 core is a very good option. with a minimum load, you can use the built-in core, and switch to a discrete one for heavy tasks. Especially since you have planned a configuration with two monitors.