Intel GMA 4500mhd and Windows 7 interface?

Hello out there,

Has anyone used a laptop running Windows 7 on an Intel GMA 4500mhd? Is the Windows interface nice and snappy, including thumbnail previews and window peeking while running several apps? Note that the '4500mhd' is very different from the '4500m'. The 4500mhd is somewhere between 15% and 30% faster.

(If there IS anyone on a gaming and graphics cards forum who got the GMA 4500mhd... )

 

my 9600M GT is 100 times faster than 4500MHD... i nver want intel integrated GPU on my laptop ever again... all Hail NVDIA and ATI LOL...

 

Disregard the post above.

I have a couple friends running Windows 7 with laptops with the 4500mhd. What I can say is as long as you have a decent processor the Windows 7 interface will be fine. My friend's HP laptop has a Core 2 Duo and a 4500mhd and has all the Aero features on and he never has any problems.

If you want to do any gaming though, definitely stray away from Intel for graphics.

 

lol... the 4500 series will be fine with the AERO interface. I have an Acer 3680 with the old gma950, and even it does fine with aero. I know the gma950 I have gets a 3.1 on aero rating, and you only need a 2 to run it smoothly.

 

ok that sounds promising then. No gaming involved, that's why I don't want to go for a 60w-70w 9600m over a 5w integrated.

Ideally it'd be a quadro nvs 160m, but that is hard to find in an appropriate laptop.

It's for my dad, he wants 17"... may be stuck with a quadro 2700m at a whopping 70w.

 

the 9600M GT is 23W... it only has 32 shaders and the newer GTS250M , which has 96 shaders has 28W power consumption... only high end gaming cards have such high TDP of 60W...power wise , 4500MHD uses less but even an integrated NVDIA 9400M which uses a few Watts more , does 100 times better for gaming... Intel cards have no hope...

 

The big issue is the lack of choices. Business laptops are the way to go for docking and good chassis construction, and for good support. Business laptops in 17" size are limiting me to a "minimum" of a quadro 2700m. Some alternatives have the Intel, but nothing in between where I'd like to be.

So would you guys describe the windows interface performance of the intel 4500mhd as "snappy" or just "working?"

 

And my 3650 is over 9000 times faster. So what?

 

I would certainly say snappy... Here's it's gaming performance...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TNTjaQtpMM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbALAv06dDE

I'd say if it can handle or even run the games above, it'll handle Aero no problemo!

 

who said anything at ALL about gaming. he asked about the aero interface.

no one needs you jumping in to make useless comments about how you feel about integrated graphics.

OP - i would say it should be just fine with a decent processor/memory combo just like the previous helpful folks have stated.

 

The 4500MHD in my T400 handles the Aero interface perfectly.

 

im on windows 7 and its very very snappy, fast and really nothing bad about running aero, no problems watching hulu at work either UNLIKE NETBOOKS ugh,

 

Agreed, Microsoft has long since introduced specific features required by any GPU in order for it to meet the requirements for Aero, which was when Vista was launched. Every GPU manufactured since then has been designed to be Aero capable. Even some older GPUs such as the Radeon 9600 that I have in my IBM T42 can run it.