My supplier offered me a laptop with integrated intel card at first. I read some tests on it and decided against it and started looking for better models.
ON the whole I've been pleasantly surprised by most graphics cards I;ve had on my laptops. My last one had shared memory but it ran most games fine on only 512MB RAM. I even played WoW on it, worked fine unless you entered a very populated zone cause that would cause some freeze ups when both graph card and CPU were claiming memory.
Just finished making recovery discs (cheap bastards at HP stopped including those, Dell at least has an option to buy some), makes me long to the days when laptops came with decent service
Installing office now, games after that.