I just helped a friend purchase a pretty decent Dell and he went with the lesser of the two on-board video cards which I think was a 256MB nVidia Geforce 7300LE TurboCache. Anyway, I could see Aero effects in use, so at least that card seems to be able to handle it.
Bobby -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hayes Elkins Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 4:34 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Aero glass and video cards >From: "Gary VanderMolen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> >To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com> >Subject: Re: [H] Aero glass and video cards >Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:59:31 -0800 > > > Does anyone know of the cheapest glass card?? > >Can't answer your question but I recently turned off the glass effect >on my Vista laptop. I found it too distracting, and not conducive to >productivity. Anyone know of a reason to keep glass except for the >fact that it looks 'gee whiz'? That same line of questioning can be applied to Vista in general. _________________________________________________________________ Play Flexicon: the crossword game that feeds your brain. PLAY now for FREE. http://zone.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmtagline