[LAU] Suggested video card

[Arnold Krille]

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Am Montag, 13. August 2007 schrieb Joshua D. Boyd:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:01 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > > Yes, please, my laptop has onboard Intel video and it steals 64MB of
> > > system memory that I'd rather be using for other things.
> > Your laptop can be expanded with a pci-/agp-card?
> > I have the very strong feeling that you are fixed on your graphics device
> > as I have never seen a laptop that could make use of an extra video card.
> > Except with a docking station that has a pci-slot...
> I've seen several laptops where the video card is a removable piece that
> can potentially be upgraded.  However, as there also seems to be no
> standard for laptop video cards, that would mean that upgrades would be
> limited to getting compatible cards from the same company.
>
> Most notably Dell is like this.  I've seen many reports of uses of the
> Inspiron 8x00 series of laptops upgrading their video cards, which I
> believe went from a fairly lowly Rage to a modest Radeon or Geforce 4MX.
> I also saw a newer Dell laptop (forget the model number, but it was a
> centrino with a pentium-m) that had Intel graphics on the motherboard
> but could take (and this one had) a seperate card that had (in this
> case) a Radeon X300 on it.
>
> So, depending on the laptop that "schrieb david" owns, he very well may
> be able to somehow upgrade it's graphics, albeit not with a PCI/AGP
> card.  If it was a common brand it may be worth looking for doner
> laptops to scavange for video upgrades.

Hehe, the guys name is only "david". The "schrieb" means "wrote" and as I am 
note "Arnold Krille wrote", he is not "david schrieb" but "david". :-)

> > You should get more RAM for your laptop so the 64MB of the graphics
> > don't make a high percentage.
> That would certainly be worth doing.

Even more so if you plan on extensive recording or playing with big soundfonts 
(like the rather good steinway sf2). For these reasons I got my wife to 
pre-approve new mem for my main desktop (still running on 512MB).

Arnold
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