What hardware is recommended to run Windows Aero?

1-GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) of random access memory (RAM)

128-MB graphics card

Aero also requires a DirectX 9 class graphics processor that supports
a Windows Display Driver Model Driver, Pixel Shader 2.0 in hardware,
and 32 bits per pixel.

For best results, you might also want to follow these graphics
processor recommendations:

64 megabytes (MB) of graphics memory to support a single monitor with
a resolution that is less than 1,310,720 pixels (for example, a
17–inch flat panel LCD monitor that has a 1280 × 1024 resolution)

128 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor with a
resolution from 1,310,720 to 2,304,000 pixels (for example, a
21.1–inch flat panel LCD monitor that has up to a 1600 × 1200
resolution)

256 MB of graphics memory to support a single monitor with a
resolution greater than 2,304,000 pixels (for example, a 30–inch
wide-screen flat panel LCD monitor that has up to a 2560 × 1600
resolution)