Vista and Intel Integrated Graphics


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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

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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

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I doubt it would run the fancy effects. Intel integrated graphics solutions are usually poo :laugh:

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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.

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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.

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and thats a great thing

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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I strongly recommend you buy a laptop after Vista is released, because then the computers will be designed for it.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Good cause it stops the ball rolling forward....

New OS shoudl get new HD its a major update for a reason

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Good cause it stops the ball rolling forward....

New OS shoudl get new HD its a major update for a reason

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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

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