ati hd2400?

Hey, i'm looking at buying this laptop, and was just wondering how well it will be able to handle games coming out today, Crysis etc, specs are :

Intel dual core T7500(lates 7xxx generation processor) 2.2Gx2
ATI HD 2400 video card with dedicate 128M memory (can hyper up to 896M Ram)(couldnt see it in the big list sticky)

4GB DDR2

also, would i be better off running vista business or xp pro? sorry if these questions seem stupid, i love gaming but unfortunately im a complete technonoob.

ps. with the budget i have it seems the only other viable cards are the radeon x2500 or the Nvidia 8400 GS, but they also seem to generally come with less ram and processing power(I live in NZ, where everything is backwards and expensive)
any help will be greatly appreciated

[edit] how would this compare to an 8600 GT with the same processor but only 2gigs of ram?

 

The 8600M GT is a much better card than the HD 2400, which compares to the 8400M GS/GT (depending if it's Pro, XT etc.).

As for your Vista/XP question, it doesn't really matter anymore now that performance is pretty similar.

 

Yeah, don't touch the HD 2400 :\ If you actually want to play Crysis, I wouldn't get anything less than a HD 2600/8600 GT, DDR2 or above for both.

 

Crysis on an 8600 GT or HD 2600? With DDR2? Not happening, 'less you like playing with some seriously low settings. At that point, why play Crysis anymore? In my opinion, Crysis is a game that should only be played with at least reasonably high settings; at low settings the graphics aren't really all that impressive any more, and the gameplay isn't (in my opinion) as revolutionary as some reviewers would have you believe.

 

My fried has a desktop HD2400Pro. It doesn't even run Call of Duty 4. So, a mobile HD2400 will most definitely not run Crysis in a playable mode.

 

Are you sure that's not a driver problem of some sort? My 8400M GS can handle Cod4 at WXGA, high textures and mostly low everything else.

 

Yeah I meant bare minimum. And I couldn't play it at those settings either, but everyone's different so

 

umm do you have any knowledge of what you're talking about. Last time I checked, I could max out every game i own on my 8600 gt including call of duty 4, company of heroes, battlefield 2142 and I can do crysis with all on medium so yea...wow those sure are some seriously low setting right?

 

^^^mm, that was more the impression i seemed to get from digging around on this forum for a while, but to be honest i didnt specifically mean crysis, just games coming out these days in general, i should have said that really... it also says the 8600 is a 512 version, if that makes much difference?
thanks for all the advice anyway, i definitely wont grab the hd2400 now

 

The GF8400M is nothing like a GF8600MGT, maybe a slow GS, but not GT.

To the OP, definitely go for the GF8600MGT with 2GB of memory over a either of the others with 4GB of memory. You'll regret skimping on the graphics card lter, especially since right now I could buy 4GB of memory for just over $50, whereas trying to upgrade a graphics solution, good luck finding it first, then installing it second. It's doable, but much more money and hassle than upgrading RAM.

 

No, I meant that the 8400M compares to the HD 2400, not the 8600M.