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will SL run on this laptop????

XanderMaria Nikolaidis
spy trainer
Join date: 15 Feb 2007
Posts: 33
05-25-2007 16:56
hiya, sorry to bother you lot,
my hubby bought me a laptop, it will be delivered next week. I fear SL will not run on it, therefore I wrote down its feartures and like to ask the more technical educated people here if you think SL will run on it.

MAIN FEATURES
Intel® Pentium® M Centrino processor at 1.7GHz (3.6)
1024mb DDR SDRAM (PC2100)
Display:
14.1" XGA active matrix (TFT) displays XGA maximum resolution of 1024x768 pixels, 16.8 million colours (The D600 graphics chipset supports up to 1600x1200 pixels with external monitor, 16.8 million colours)
Graphics Cards
Intel ® 855GM integrated UMA graphics chipset
Video type: 64-bit hardware accelerated 4X AGP support
Up to 48MB sharded RAM when notebook memory <256MB
Up to 64MB sharded RAM when notebook memory >256MB
Hard Drives User-removable 60GB primary hard drive
Fixed Optical Drive DVD/CDRW Drive
Integrated Audio and Speakers
Audio type/controller: AC97 (Soft Audio) / ICH3
Stereo: 20-bit stereo-digital to analog and 18-bit stereo analog to digital Internal speakers: (Two) 4-ohm
Networking
Internal 10/100 Ethernet 32 bits 10 & 100 Mbps

it said lots of other techno blabla, but I think those are the important bits,
thanks in advance for your reply

xxx
XanderMaria
Lee Ponzu
What Would Steve Do?
Join date: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 1,770
05-25-2007 19:11
The most important thing is the graphics adapter. Sorry to say, this laptop does not have a very powerful one. Try for an ATI 1600 or nvdia 7600 or better. These are graphics adapters with many special features for 3D and OpenGL, both of which SL needs.
Osgeld Barmy
Registered User
Join date: 22 Mar 2005
Posts: 3,336
05-25-2007 19:23
aye ATI or NVIDIA

you might get it to work with an intel video card, but its not supported, not powerfull enugh, nor does it support all the features that open GL uses, its really a dice roll, and just becuase it works now doesnt mean its gonna work later, a driver change, or a sl graphics change and your rolling that dice again
Thili Playfair
Registered User
Join date: 18 Aug 2004
Posts: 2,417
05-26-2007 03:57
Intel ® 855GM integrated UMA graphics chipset

So no, you might be lucky to get it working, but dont count on it for long really.