Review » Short Review: Asus Eee PC 900 Subnotebookīenq S53W: Intel Pentium M 750, 13.00", 2.1 kg Review » Review Asus Eee PC Family NotebookĪsus Eee PC 900: Intel Celeron M 353, 8.90", 1 kg Notebook reviews with Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900 graphics cardĪsus Eee PC 701 4G (RM miniBook): Intel Celeron M 630 MHz, 7.00", 1 kg No Hardware Transform and Lightning Support (T&L), MPEG2 acceleration, Motion Compensation
For office programs and surfing the performance is more than sufficient.Ĭurrently there are no drivers that support Aero Glass for Windows Vista. Furthermore, the laptop may stay cooler and more silent than laptops with dedicated graphics cards.
The advantage of integrated graphics cards, is that they have a low power consumtion and therefore save battery life. Some old 3D games and especially 2D games should run without problems. Still Intel published a list of games that will run (not needingly beautiful) on the notebook. The GMA 900 can not be described as a graphics card that is sufficient for gamers. Furthermore, the chip is able to accelerate the decoding of MPEG2 videos and supports Motion Compensation.
It supports DirectX 9.0 with Shader Model 2.0 (Vertex Shader are calculated in Software - by the CPU) and OpenGL 1.4. It does not support hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) calculations (which is required for some games).
The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (also known as GMA 900) is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on the Mobile Intel 915GM chipset for Intel processors. Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 900