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Install Vista, Buy Graphics Card
Friday, October 20th, 2006
Microsoft’s Windows Vista is nearing completion for retail distribution in January, but many buyers 
will discover that a stand-alone graphics processor or card is required to reap its full benefits.
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have already talked up their CPUs’ importance in Vista’s features and OEMs have begun touting "Vista ready" PCs before the operating system’s release. But it is now more apparent with the recent release of the latest beta version of Vista, called Release Candidate 2 (or RC2 for short), that a simple CPU with an integrated graphics processor will not always be good enough. A separate graphics processor, usually reserved for the gamer set, is almost always needed to take full advantage of Vista’s graphics capabilities for the most graphics-rich version of Vista, or Aero, on what Microsoft calls "Windows Vista Premium Ready PCs."
Officially, you can run a stripped-down version of Vista without a video card in a PC or a stand-alone graphics processor in a laptop — but you might not want to. Wired News: Install Vista, Buy Graphics Card
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