• Vista Aero Glass on laptops

    Posted on April 27, 2006 at 19:48 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    It’s time for me to get a new laptop. One of my trusty old Dell machines finally turned belly-up, so it’s shopping time again.

    Of course, my number-one question is whether the new beast will run Vista, particularly the graphics-card-intensive Aero Glass interface. While many of the major video card manufacturers have lists of Vista-capable products (nVidia’s list is here, ATI’s list is here), Intel’s site doesn’t appear to have a succinct yes-or-no, up-or-down list of supported video cards. The best I could find was a rather non-commital announcement: “Ready for Microsoft Windows* Vista* / Updated Intel® Graphics WDDM drivers supporting the Intel® 945G Express Chipset are included in the Windows Vista* February CTP build (build 5308). These drivers are only compatible with this build and should not be used with other versions of Windows Vista.”

    Since many laptops (indeed, many desktops) have built-in Intel video chips, the question is more than a little academic.

    That’s why I was very pleased to bump into this video, showing Aero Glass running on an Intel GMA 950 chip. So as long as I stick to laptops with a GMA 950 (the Thinkpad X 60 comes to mind immediately), I should be able to run Aero Glass on it.

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