laptop hardware vista

Hi Again, I posted this yesterday in the wrong room. I'm shopping for a laptop for school that will be Vista "Aeroglass" capable. Would like any help because I'm not very computer literate. So here goes,Let me know if these are acceptable hardware configs please.
It's from Gateway: 1) Intel Duo T2400- 1.83 Ghz 2Mb L2 Cache 2)1024Mb 533Mhz DDR2 SDRAM 3) 15.4 WXGA TFT Active Matrix (1280x800 max. resolution) 4)80Gb 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive 5)ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 128Mb Graphics(up to 256Mb HyperMemory)
That's pretty much it;but was thinking of bumping up the Graphics to 256Mb. Any help;comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Jeff

Zack replied to this in the .general ng
Its supports DirectX® 9 Shader Model 3.0 support, which is very good. Vista recommends that the display adapter on a PC must support DirectX 9 with Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware, 32 bits per pixel and Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) support. http://www.ati.com/products/MobilityRadeonx1400/index.html
So your only obstacle is to find out if the card or the one you want to upgrade to supports WDDM. \
Yes, it does: https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=5712 :) MobilityT Radeon® X1300, X1400, X1600, X1800
This build 5308 of Vista, hopefully it can work on build 5342 and I am sure ATI will continue to update the driver to support future builds such as BETA 2 and the final release (RTM). -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Hi Again, I posted this yesterday in the wrong room. I'm shopping for a laptop for school that will be Vista "Aeroglass" capable. Would like any help because I'm not very computer literate. So here goes,Let me know if these are acceptable hardware configs please.
It's from Gateway: 1) Intel Duo T2400- 1.83 Ghz 2Mb L2 Cache 2)1024Mb 533Mhz DDR2 SDRAM 3) 15.4 WXGA TFT Active Matrix (1280x800 max. resolution) 4)80Gb 5400rpm Serial ATA hard drive 5)ATI Mobility Radeon x1400 128Mb Graphics(up to 256Mb HyperMemory)
That's pretty much it;but was thinking of bumping up the Graphics to 256Mb. Any help;comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Jeff