Sony SZ video card upgrade

I am looking into buying the Sony SZ but was waiting for them to upgrade from the nvidia 7400 (128 dedicated) to something a little bit more so it would be able to handle vista without any change in performance.

Does anyone know when sony is updating the sony SZ model?
Or when they will be preinstalling vista on Sony laptops?
Is it possible to change videocards in a Sony SZ?

 

Answer to the 3 questions:

1) Don't know.
2) Don't know.
3) No. You cannot change the video card as they're soldered onto the motherboard.

 

RARELY can a GPU be upgraded in a notebook. Sony does not make any laptops (that I know of) that are in the 0.01% of GPU-upgradeable notebooks.

Vista will not be available at least until January 30 for OEM PCs. However, as long as you don't play games you will not see a performance hit in the majority of tasks that users do every day. The 7400 is more than capable of running Aero (Vista's fancy GUI), and you do not need a decent GPU to run Vista.

Gaming will not reach XP levels until (1) DX10 cards are optimized and (2) drivers for the new OS are optimized.

 

Also keep in mind that gaming is not the main purpose of the SZ. The go 7400 is more than enough for most non-gamers, and does very well as a light-gaming GPU.

 

Even my Compaq /AMD Sempron runs Vista Aero.

 

It's also notable that if you buy a SZ3XX now, you'll be able to get a free upgrade to Windows Vista ---- and yes, the graphics card in the SZ should do fine with Vista (and satisfies my gaming needs quite nicely).

 

I just purchased a TX850 and Vista with aero glass works great!

 

Oh it does? Thats great!
The TX8XX and TXN are basically the same except the TXNs use Verizon or Sprint's EVDO and the TX8XX doesn't have any WWAN service or the antenna right? Otherwise both the exact same?

 

Correct - I wanted an 850 and to choose my own wireless - the wireless technologies change so fast that I did not want to be saddled to one technology.

Regarding the aero - the 850 runs a core solo ULV processor with the intel 950 graphics - it works great, in fact when I installed Vista it was automatically turned on - I should note that I am using a 1 GB memory stick as additional memeory for the TX.

 

For the GMA cards you will need 1GB RAM for Aero to work...I'd get 2GB to ensure good performance after the GMA steals that ram though.