Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 09:30 AM 05/06/2006, Chris Reeves wrote:
Rendering 2d for your video card, as someone pointed out is child's
play.
Having it continuously in a 3D enabled mode means it's using more power;
more heat; more chances for a nice graphics crash. Not sure what great
benefit there is in that.
And how many laptops have 128MB of video RAM or more? Not many. So
Vista isn't for laptops, clearly. Of course, they're looking to the
future, when we all buy new ones. :)
They are looking to the future...and eventually, most folks will get
another one, but there are always plenty of new folks entering the
laptop market. They'll like the new stuff and won't give a hoot about
vidram...
