Can GeForce 6600 in a laptop run Maya 7.0?

[inkbrush]

Hi,
I am a student thinking of getting a new laptop and Maya 7.0. I would like the laptop to run Maya, but I am not sure if it's capable. The laptop I am thinking of is the Uniwill 259EN3 which has the switchable video card. It can switch between the dedicated nVidia GeForce Go 6600 and the integrated Intel GMA 900. http://www.uniwill.com/products/hybrid/259en3/259en3.php?HL=1&P=1

I just really like the switching feature as it allows long battery life. The big question is, can the 6600 card run Maya 7.0? I looked up the Alias qualification sheet (http://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_70_win.html)
and of course, it says all GeForce cards are not qualified. Just what does "not qualified" mean?

If I had all the money in the world, I would go for a workstation laptop, but reality being as it is, I have to go for a cheaper option. What are your thoughts on this?

 

[Drakkon]

at work we run maya on integrated intel video graphics and it works, but development time is greatly increased due to the slowness of rendering each time a view is changed.

if you read

There are many cards based on GeForce256, GeForce2, GeForce3 and GeForce4 chipsets. Nvidia and Alias do not recommend these cards for use with Maya as you may experience various refresh, display and stability problems and inadequate performance.
We suggest you choose from Nvidia's workstation cards instead, such as the Quadro families which are much better suited to high-end 3D packages such as Maya.

So in other words they will work but it wont work as well as it could. Most likely you'll see jumps when you change views and render time could be increased.

I dunno where you are buying that uniwill notebook (never heard of them either) but if there toping at around 1500 or so you might look into the dell outlet store, you can find refurb precision notebooks for around that price so you can find a notebook with a quadro that should preform as expected for maya 3dstudiio, etc etc