Originally Posted by this_is_gav 
Define a 'real laptop', because for me, Intel graphics are perfectly fine for the vast majority of systems, be they laptops or otherwise. A tiny minority might want better hardware acceleration for their HD videos, an equally small number might want some gaming graphics and even fewer will want some GPU grunt for productivity such as 3D modelling or Photoshop, but for the vast majority Intel graphics provide nothing less than anything from ATI or Nvidia.
What? The 'vast majority' are happy with intel graphics?
You have it mixed up quite badly. The 'vast majority' of hardware buyers expect it to operate at certain standards.
Only intel graphics fail to meet those standards. Just because you are happy doesn't change anything, you are only happy because you dont know what you are missing out on elsewhere.