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    GMA 950 and Vista

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by drwho9437, Jan 30, 2007.

  1. drwho9437

    drwho9437 Notebook Evangelist NBR Reviewer

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    Anyone running a T60 with GMA 950 and Vista with Aero turned on? I know it meets the min req but I wonder if it is slugish or crisp.
     
    drwho9437, Jan 30, 2007
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    I highly highly doubt it will run it well at all. I bet it'd be slow.
     
    RedSensiStar, Jan 30, 2007
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    if its anything like dells gma its fine as long as you have at least 2 gigs of memory because gma uses 224
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    Ah they are all the same, all that would matter is the chipset ram speed and processor type, dell or non-dell. BIOS revisions aren't wildly important. So yeah. Thanks for the input though
     
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    ...and you are highly highly wrong :rolleyes:

    The GMA 950 runs Vista Aero with no problems when equipped with min 1GB RAM.
     
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    Thanks, I bet the size of the screen it is driving has some impact, but not much. Worst case probably turn off transparency... I like having battery life, discrete graphics all seem so power consumptive and I don't really want a sony dual GPU workaround thing. Anyway. If anyone else has GMA 950 experience feel free to chime in.

    BTW what is the deal with the Z61t being listed as GM945 that chipset has GMA950 right? I think that's what the TA book says too. Lenovo really ought to have some consistent listings.
     
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    I was just at BestBuy checking out the Vista notebooks. The notebooks with onboard graphics ran surprisingly well.
     
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    I had Vista Business running on my R60 with the Intel 950 card. I thought it looked pretty good and ran about the same speed as XP.
     
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    Did you notice less battery life with Vista?
     
    sp00n, Jan 31, 2007
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