Video Card Upgrade???

[Royal Oaks]

Hello, I have been wondering about something. I would one day like to upgrade my Laptop vid card if possible. Is there anyway to do this??? Haven't ever heard of people upgrading Laptop parts often, but I would love to slap an ATi Radeon to-go or whatever its called in there. Maybe even a GeForce 2 GO mmmmmmm. Anyways, I was just wondering where, if anywhere, I could pick one of these bad boys up. Also, how do I check to see if my notebook even supports it. Thanks

[The Love Bunny]

most laptop parts are indeed soldered onto the motherboard which is why you dont hear about people swapping parts often

it is not likely you could buy a do-it-yourself kind of thing - if anything you may have to send it back to the company who made it, for an upgrading, that is, if its possible for your model to swap parts

[ua549]

Laptops are a unit. There is little you can do to upgrade. Mpost components are part of a board that is quite expensive to replace.

[briareus]

It really depends on the specific model that you're talking about, but generally laptop video cards are integrated into the motherboard.

[KegCanMan]

Never once heard of a laptop with any swappable parts..
although older IBM lappy's used to have upgradable cpu's....(earlier PII era)

[downrodeo]

alienware ahve started a program where they will upgrade parts of your (alienware) laptop. you only need to pay the price of the parts, not the labor.
I am not sure if vid card is one of these parts

[jagojago12]

Check out the Dell support forums. Some of the dell laptops have upgradeable video card support (GF2 Go, GF4 etc..).

[god_shiva]

I have a dell inspiron 2500, and it shares 2 MB of system memory, and I have the option of buying a 4 MB chip to put in there that would supposedly improve performance

-Alex