Well, my machine has a i7 4930k, which has no on-board GPU, I use an nvidia K2000 for displaying video.
in the laptop even the old GMA500 drivers are enough for 2D render, if you're playing games then don't use on-board graphics?
Onboard graphics are "good enough" for most scenarios, less so in graphics production and gaming- which only leaves onboard (or on-die) in the mobile platform. And AMD simply isn't competitive there due to power consumption.
I do use on-board graphics on my travel netbook for 3D programming on the go (just as hobby), and Intel on-board GPUs were never a match, specially given their OpenGL drivers.
Intel has improved their OpenGL support by leaps and bounds lately. Mostly because they need a good implementation for Android tablets.
The support is actually better than what AMD has now. As an example AMD has (or had, been few months) a horrible bug in OpenGL compute shaders that pretty much break them completely. Whereas with Intel it works nice and dandy.
But yeah. Price-wise cheap AMD laptop (sub 500€ range) is a better choice all in all. For anything more expensive Intel + Nvidia tends to dominate completely.
in the laptop even the old GMA500 drivers are enough for 2D render, if you're playing games then don't use on-board graphics?
Onboard graphics are "good enough" for most scenarios, less so in graphics production and gaming- which only leaves onboard (or on-die) in the mobile platform. And AMD simply isn't competitive there due to power consumption.