Is this laptop video "card" going to be good for Vista?

[oboeguy]

128MB ATI MOBILITY? RADEON® X1300 HyperMemory?

It's from one of those Dell deals where the laptops are like 50% off. The above is the next option up from the default integrated Intel graphics, which I imagine would suck with Vista.

Oh, while on topic, what's the difference between XP Media Center and the old fashioned Professional? TIA.

 

[Raduque]

My Dell laptop has an X300 128mb vidcard which is perfectly fine for Vista. The X1300 is 1000 times better Seriously, it should be fine for Vista's eye candy.

The difference between XP MCE and XP Pro, is that MCE has the Media Center UI, designed to be easy-to-use on a TV with a remote, for managing and playing audio and video files, as well as scheduling and watching live and recorded TV. MCE also cannot join domains by default, but I think you can enable it in the registry somehow.

 

[Ika]

The only catch is that it won't be able to run Vista's super eye-candy, since that requires DX10.

 

[Raduque]

Are you sure about that, guoziming? I remember reading that there was either Aero Glass or Not(Classic), and for Aero Glass, you need a DX9 card. Mind linking me to something that mentions Vista's Aero Glass requiring DX10?

 

[oboeguy]

Well it's ordered anyway. Thanks for the good word, Raduque. Guoziming, that doesn't sound right. There are very few DX10 parts out there as it is.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: guoziming
The only catch is that it won't be able to run Vista's super eye-candy, since that requires DX10.

Negative.

You don't need a DX10 card to run the Aero Glass stuff or whatever they are calling it now.

In fact, you can run the same thing now actually on XP (Longhorn Transformation Pack ftw!)...