So your fine for video memory on both, but you are running under the minimum for #1. I still can't see how you get equivalent performance from the two. You must be swapping all the time on that slow laptop hard drive.
Actually it’s not swapping hardly at all, the only thing I would say is noticably slower is the boot up time, which does take about twice as long. The only app that’s horribly slow is VMware, but that is expected since it borrows enough RAM to run another complete O/S, so it’s really not an option on this system.
I’ll put a video up on youtube when I get the chance, showing the RAM and even 3D flipping through multiple desktops.