[ale] OT: Cheap Laptop w/o shared RAM

[Robert A. Wicks]

I don't think this is right. I have a $500 Acer laptop which came with
Vista Home. It can get up to 358MB of RAM from the system, but the
onboard is nowhere near that much. I have an Nvidia 7300 with 128M
onboard, but it can get twice that from the system. I don't think shared
RAM is the problem, unless the video card has *no* onboard RAM. If it
has *some*, you won't have the slow 2D performance. You will get a
slowdown with intensive 3D stuff, though.

Jim Lynch wrote:
> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>   
>> What are the advantages of having dedicated video ram?  What are the
>> downsides to not having dedicated video ram?
>>
>> Thx.
>>
>> -Jim P.
>>   
>>     
> One think I keep reading that is a real positive, is that Vista won't 
> run on a shared video ram.  ;)
>
> Jim.
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