Don’t know what else to tell you, Vista Ultimate with Aero is working just fine on this laptop with only 512Mb RAM, maybe I’ll put a video up on youtube or something so you can see it. So the whole world can see it, since there’s so many claiming it’s not possible.
I do have to admit I just noticed ALL of the video memory isn’t shared, I knew this model had “shared” video memory but apparently it does actually have 64Mb onboard as well. I’m also driving an external monitor at 1280x768 and 32 bit color and everything looks great and works great, if I have time to make and post a video this weekend I will, there’s really not much if any difference in noticable performance between it and my other laptop that has 2Gb RAM and shared video of 32Mb. Of course I’m not editing video or other extremely intensive tasks, but for basic tasks I’ve not had a single hickup.
That helps quite a bit.
there’s really not much if any difference in noticable performance between it and my other laptop that has 2Gb RAM and shared video of 32Mb.
The other laptop is configured for half the minimum video memory required. Sure that's not a typo? If not, it's understandable why it runs so slow too. Configure your shared graphics memory to 128 or 256 MB and watch things get a lot faster.