Abbas Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 I was thinking of buying the new Sony TX series that should be available shortlly. However, it uses the Intel GMA900 graphics accelerator (915 chipset) and I was wondering if that will effect any of Vista's eye candy. -Abbas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syntax_Error Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 I was thinking of buying the new Sony TX series that should be available shortlly. However, it uses the Intel GMA900 graphics accelerator (915 chipset) and I was wondering if that will effect any of Vista's eye candy. -Abbas 586545015[/snapback] I doubt it would run the fancy effects. Intel integrated graphics solutions are usually poo :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4L1STA Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 I think it'll run it, it will just eat up the rest of your system resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M118LR Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Microsoft has told motherboard makers that Vista is being developed for video cards not on board video with shared memory. By the time Vista ships you should not see any motherboards made to run Vista with on board video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Microsoft has told motherboard makers that Vista is being developed for video cards not on board video with shared memory. By the time Vista ships you should not see any motherboards made to run Vista with on board video. 586545125[/snapback] and thats a great thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Just because you have integrated graphics, doesn't mean Vista won't look nice. Microsoft is still dedicated to making a non-Glass theme that looks good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commodore Max Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 I strongly recommend you buy a laptop after Vista is released, because then the computers will be designed for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riceboyler Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 That is, of course, if you're only buying one to run Vista. I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with the Intel GMA, and it will NOT support Glass effects. Kinda frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0z Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 I was thinking of buying the new Sony TX series that should be available shortlly. However, it uses the Intel GMA900 graphics accelerator (915 chipset) and I was wondering if that will effect any of Vista's eye candy. -Abbas 586545015[/snapback] You will get no transparency or effects. GMA900 is hardly a graphics accelerator really. If you can get a laptop with ATI graphics onboard - that would be a far better choice than Sony TX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbas Posted September 19, 2005 Author Share Posted September 19, 2005 Its just that I love the form factor of the T series but yeah- no point in buying something that wont run an OS to its capabilities in 9 months. Thanks for everyones feedback -Abbas You will get no transparency or effects.GMA900 is hardly a graphics accelerator really. If you can get a laptop with ATI graphics onboard - that would be a far better choice than Sony TX. 586546318[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Brannigan Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Microsoft has told motherboard makers that Vista is being developed for video cards not on board video with shared memory. By the time Vista ships you should not see any motherboards made to run Vista with on board video. 586545125[/snapback] Nonsense !! We have made no such recommendations to hardware vendors. The only requirements are GPUs of sufficient memory and performance and a LDDM driver. System with onboard GPUs will certainly run Windows Vista ad will have full UI fnctionailty if they meet the specs and have a LDDm driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted September 19, 2005 MVC Share Posted September 19, 2005 I ran vista on my 700m with IG, and it ran fine visually. However, when I saw vista on a machine that had a compatible graphics card...I was amazed. I would wait. PLus wait because notebooks are going to have a nice outside screen of some sort to utilize more vista eyecandy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stadsport Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 I strongly recommend you buy a laptop after Vista is released, because then the computers will be designed for it. 586545981[/snapback] I certainly hope it gets better. As it is now, it uses hardware acceleration 24/7 (for the Glass effect and others), which not only eats up battery life horribly, but makes some laptops run very hot. Right now, Vista is terrible for laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 You will get no transparency or effects.GMA900 is hardly a graphics accelerator really. If you can get a laptop with ATI graphics onboard - that would be a far better choice than Sony TX. 586546318[/snapback] The funny thing is that is exactly the graphics chip used in the OS X Intel developer kit systems, and all of OS X's effects run nicely on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Behelit Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Without trying to knock Microsoft (as it would serve no purpose in the following point), Microsoft's software is known to unnecessarily push users to upgrade hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1WayJonny Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Without trying to knock Microsoft (as it would serve no purpose in the following point), Microsoft's software is known to unnecessarily push users to upgrade hardware. 586549068[/snapback] Good cause it stops the ball rolling forward.... New OS shoudl get new HD its a major update for a reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Behelit Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Good cause it stops the ball rolling forward....New OS shoudl get new HD its a major update for a reason 586549211[/snapback] Believe it or not, but not everybody wants to turn their back on a computer they purchased 2-3 years ago. The same hardware is just as capable as browsing the internet, checking emails, writing documents, whatever, as it always was (even after the launch of Vista). Check the following out: "Bloat Why is it that Microsoft's products keep mushrooming in size with each new release always requiring significantly more disk space and more processing power than the last time? They might claim it's because of all the new features they add each time, but that's only half the story. The new features and the increased processing requirements are designed to fuel the process of perpetual upgrades. This is Microsoft's way of rubbing Intel's back so that Intel will give Microsoft preferential treatment when it comes out with new chip specs. It's also Microsoft's way of convincing consumers that their newer product versions are better because they are so much bigger. Their new features are often superfluous but users must still deal with the overhead required by the features even though most will never use the features." Source and further Reading Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagamer34 Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 Will an ATI Xpress 200M be good enough for Aero Glass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jak0bk Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 I run vista with aero glass on ATI x200 Express onboard graphics. It runs great. Granted I've upped the video memory to 128MB, but it runs great otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rseiler Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 I was thinking of buying the new Sony TX series that should be available shortlly. However, it uses the Intel GMA900 graphics accelerator (915 chipset) and I was wondering if that will effect any of Vista's eye candy. -Abbas 586545015[/snapback] No Glass for you: http://www.intel.com/business/bss/products...ions/mobile.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbas Posted September 20, 2005 Author Share Posted September 20, 2005 Straight from the horse's mouth- I guess I'm skipping the TX model. Thanks again for everyone for their input. No Glass for you:http://www.intel.com/business/bss/products...ions/mobile.htm 586550692[/snapback] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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