it's not too bad.. i could live with the 5400rpm drive... 1G is enough.. so i called to buy one... i had one question before i plunked down the card...

o ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory™ (integrated)

what does 'integrated' actually mean.

the answer: shared.

cute, they changed the term to sound like its using on board graphics memory, but in reality it's just crappy shared system memory.

problem with shared memory is that it needs to use the system bus constantly to push data from the graphics memory to the video board (like directX and openGL would). complete crap.

i have an old 1.5GHz box with only 64M of dedicated graphics memory... and it performs better then my brand new 1.75GHz dual-code which uses shared memory (i really thought i had spec'd dedicated when i picked it up... *sigh*... life on the road...)

end result... i wouldn't buy one.. not even as a present (which i was about to do)