Laptop hardware for Vista

[Jeff]

Hi Again,
I posted this yesterday in the wrong room. I'm shopping for
a laptop for school that will be Vista "Aeroglass" capable. Would like any
help because I'm not very computer literate. So here goes,Let me know if
these are acceptable hardware configs please.

It's from Gateway:
1) Intel Duo T2400- 1.83 Ghz 2Mb L2 Cache
2)1024Mb 533Mhz DDR2 SDRAM
3) 15.4 WXGA TFT Active Matrix (1280x800 max. resolution)
4)80Gb 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive
5)ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 128Mb Graphics(up to 256Mb HyperMemory)

That's pretty much it;but was thinking of bumping up the Graphics to 256Mb.
Any help;comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Zack replied to this in the .general ng

Its supports DirectX® 9 Shader Model 3.0 support, which is very good. Vista
recommends that the display adapter on a PC must support DirectX 9 with
Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32 bits per pixel and Windows Display Driver
Model (WDDM) support.
http://www.ati.com/products/MobilityRadeonx1400/index.html

So your only obstacle is to find out if the card or the one you want to
upgrade to supports WDDM. \

Yes, it does:
https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=5712

MobilityT Radeon® X1300, X1400, X1600, X1800

This build 5308 of Vista, hopefully it can work on build 5342 and I am sure
ATI will continue to update the driver to support future builds such as BETA
2 and the final release (RTM).
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