128mb vs 256mb graphics and Photoshop

Need help right away - Powerbook G4 is dying. I am going to buy an MBP. I do heavy Photoshop and some MS Office 2003, no gaming. Would I benefit (significantly, i.e. is it worth the extra $$$) from buying the 2.0 Ghz, just to get the 256 mb VRAM? Whichever I get, I will order it with 1gb of RAM, so that's not an factor.

My vote is for the better machine. The way things are going, with DSLRs ever increasing in density, and Adobe and every other software vendor moving to 16 bit processing, etc. you may not use it just right yet, but if history repeats itself, you will. By that, I mean that you won't be able to go back and add the video card, the better processor, better drive, better DVD ( 8X when it comes out ) without paying large sums after the fact.
Microsoft writes VERY busy code, and when they finally do come out with their UB version of software, it will surely use all the memory you give it. As it stands now, MS Office under Rosetta uses way more memory than it does on a non-Intel.
Both product lines run slow now, but I saw a big improvement when I bumped it up to 2 gigs memory. Default setings would imply what the others are saying, the video card doesn't make a difference. My take is that future ATI drivers and adjusting the settings in PSCS2 to use more memory, does in fact involve the video card memory at least in some manner.
Long winded reply, but I don't know how many times I wished I had purchased more, and lamented that fact when the new software version came out.
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