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How is Aero capability on the macbook?

Yep, I was first to post pics of this a good while ago (when all the haters were shouting the odds)
 
I run Aero on RC1 with 1.25 GB, my guess would be that it will work with 1GB. I couldn't get it when I only had 512 though
 
I have 2GB in my MacBook and it runs Vista RC2 with Aero flawlessly. I think you need more than 512MB to run it though.
 
huntr2 said:
I have 2GB in my MacBook and it runs Vista RC2 with Aero flawlessly. I think you need more than 512MB to run it though.
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Could you let me know how much video memory you have ?
I'm wanting a macbook pro, but unsure of the video memory needed for vista. 128 or 256??
 
azz said:
Could you let me know how much video memory you have ?
I'm wanting a macbook pro, but unsure of the video memory needed for vista. 128 or 256??
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They're talking about MacBooks so they all have 64mb shared GMA950 integrated graphics... not that great chips for games but really good for stuff like Aero/CoreImage
 
SpaceMagic said:
They're talking about MacBooks so they all have 64mb shared GMA950 integrated graphics... not that great chips for games but really good for stuff like Aero/CoreImage
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thanks.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on the performance of Aero on a macbook with 128mb of video ram? Its the minimum recommendation from MS which normally means it will run badly, but will run.

Sorry I mean MacBook Pro
 
GMA950 on Vista if you have 1-2gb will run Aero and can use upto 224mb of video ram (windows will dynamically assign)
 
I had Aero running for just a little bit on my iMac and it only has 512MB of RAM. As soons as I went back into Vista after a reboot though it was gone 🙁
 
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