Two unique features available in the laptop are the availability of the ATI Mobile RADEON x1300 video adaptor and the full GB of memory available

The ATI Mobile x1300 video card enables the system with phenomenal video rendering capability with its onboard 128 MB fixed video memory and 90 nanometer GPU. A noticeable feature of this specific video adaptor is the use of the PCI Express 16x interface. The x1300 transfers data via 4 pixel shader pipelines and 2 vertex processors, offering a great amount of visual performance. The video adaptor generates a very crisp and full-featured picture on the 15.4" widescreen display and has support for High Definition as well as Standard Definition external displays.

What makes this specific video adaptor different from others is how it works with the installed system memory. The ATI Mobile RADEON x1300 comes included with ATI's Hypermemory technology to offering a flexibility mostly missing from the laptops.

Hypermemory is a technology configured by ATI to enhance the performance of onboard video adaptors without sacrificing performance. The Hypermemory technology allows better efficient usage of all the present system memory in computers that hyas the PCI Express technology. This allows video adaptor to lend from the system memory to match its own onboard memory for faster real time processing between the graphics card and the CPU.

While running any graphics based application, the average limitations of onboard video adaptors can be circumvented to be able to generate the best possible quality graphics. Digital photo editing and 3-D gaming, once the strong point of only higher end desktop computers, now are a possible option in a mobile platform at a reasonable cost. In the laptop's BIOS one can set the video memory from 64 MB up to maximum 256 MB of video resolution, the original setting is 128 MB.

The hardware mix on the 5043 WLMI laptop is rounded out with a DVD +/- RW, an 802.11 b/g wireless adaptor, a v92 modem, and a gigabit network adaptor. It is frequently a pleasure to see a DVD +/- RW included in any computer as anything less than this is a major failing of what could be a quality product. Many portables are offered with either a DVD-ROM or CDRW/DVD combo drive. While considering that there are hardly a few of dollars separating the price of one of these devices from a good DVD +/- RW, it is annoying to see those reduced function devices still being included in new products. The drive has the capacity to generate dual layered DVDs to save about 8.5 GB of data and is suited with almost all media formats.