I love my Thinkpads Radeon 7500 32mb. Let's me play some stuff when we have a LAN (usually never with computers anymore). HL2 based games and even unreal 2004, works pretty good! I will never buy a laptop with no video card.
It's a laptop made in 2004. My actual desktop has a 512mb Geforce 8800GT so, lol. Windows XP, what is this, 2001? It's above 30 FPS or around it. I just have to turn off a few details to medium or low, it still looks good though. I was pretty surprised.
No, it's windows vista is a damn resource hogger and is pretty much useless if you dont care for the ''sleek'' gui.