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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zacster" data-source="post: 1328211" data-attributes="member: 17931">Graphics cards affect performance, not the monitor.  The only thing that generally stresses the graphics card is games/3d simulation, anything where you are putting out fast moving video that needs to be computed.  I know the SandyBridge i7 processor, and I think the i5 also, has a section dedicated to transcoding video codecs, usually one of the slowest things that the processor may need to do.  With dedicated hardware it is much faster.  In any case, the new 27" will run circles around your MBP.  Sandy Bridge was a huge processor upgrade, with new motherboards built to handle it.Here's my advice if you are concerned, buy the 27" i7 processor model.  There isn't anything faster out there, at least not from a processor standpoint.  That goes for the windows world too.</blockquote>