Vista laptop hardware

[Jeff]

To everyone-thanks-I posted my latest choice in Vista Hardware room;if you
could look at that and give an opinion I'de appreciate it. I decided to stay
with 32bit because-as people have noted-64bit is a little too pricey for me
as of yet;and I do need this laptop soon;for work and school;so if you all
could look in Vista Hardware room and give me more advice or let me know if
that would work-I'm gonna do it because school for me starts May 8th, Thanks
again for all the input.

Jeff

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Just for the benefit of others:

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)

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2MB Cache, very nice - Gig of RAM, that's not bad... that'll run Vista fine,
but if you could push it up to 1.5 that'd make things smoother, faster,
you'll notice the difference especially if you develop with it. Screen isn't
bad, but a tad small perhaps - 17" I'm used to you see, but it depends on
what screen your migrating from, you may feel a little lost P - Plenty of
hard drive space, but 80GB is "medium-small" compared to nowadays hard
drives.
Graphics card sounds sweet - just make sure you can deffo. get those WDDM
drivers for it!

(and this time Andre, I saw the Duo bit LOL)

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[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

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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[Jeff Daly]

Looks like similar specs to the Dell that I'm looking at. I've heard that
hard drives in laptops are easier to access/replace these days so the
"medium-small" thing might not be a real issue for you

How much is this puppy going for???

 

[Jeff]

Thanks Again to all for the info-you guys made my decision easy-gonna get
it-but will think about the 1.5 Gb-anyway thanks to everyone
Jeff

 

[Jeff]

Jeff,
I looked at Dell also-even have a credit account with them; however they
were'nt helpful at all to me in my decision;in fact the options that I got
from Gateway were much more workable for me. They do look almost
identical;but as the kind people in here have helped me;I would definetly go
with a graphics card-like the one I was thinking of. Not too sure about the
Intel 950-so the bottom line out the door was approximately $1500-more than
the Dell-but something I was able to build myself;and they didn't force me
on an Operating system that I may have no need for(i.e. XP MCE2005/XP Pro)
because the point of this research is to be able to run Vista-Dell was not
flexible with their options-including their O.S. so with everyone's help;I'm
going with that config- and if I have extra$$$ will bump up to 256 Mb
graphics and 1.5 Gb RAM-but I'm very happy with it as it stands-plus the rep
said ;wait till next week and they are having new models out with more
options;and I can't buy till May8th anyway because of my school loan. Hope
this helps.

The "other" Jeff
Jeff

 

[Zack Whittaker]

Well... ppft what can I say? It sounds like the perfect Vista computer!!! Go
get it!!

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