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Originally Posted by TheMatt
Basically, internal expansion slots are reserved for Wifi. 802.11b/g and some a/b/g cards are mini PCI, and 802.11a/b/g/n and most a/b/g cards are mini PCIe.
The only upgradable video cards in laptops are those with MXM video cards, and unfortunately Leveno has yet to produce a laptop using the MXM standard. The 7300 in that laptop has 128 MB dedicated, and can use another 128 MB from the system RAM.
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Well.. I just bought a
laptop.. around 700 with shipping and all.. new.. hopefully the CPU is good enough for vista 32bit for a few years at least.. I dont think it was a true dual core 2 though. (certainly not 667mhz like the e1505 we just got at work).
The graphics is just integrated intel.. I guess that should work ok, maybe even for some minor 3d in progs like Maya 8. At the very least I can do web/programming type work easily.
I'm also nearly 100% sure this laptop's bg card can be swapped out with
this unit, but nearly 100% sure there is no way to upgrade the video card since this is an integrated unit.
I'm not sure on CPU.. how easily can these be updated if need be? Whole motherboard swap I'm betting?
At any rate.. I didnt want to spend alot, but get decent "windows" performance.. so I think this one makes the cut.
I may also upgrade to 7200rpm, but as mentioned prior.. this may not help alot.
Cheers