Is there anything I can buy to improve the graphics on my laptop? I have a Gateway MT6841 with an Intel GMA 950 graphics card.

Right now I just play warcraft III FT and the GMA 950 is all I need. But as SC 2, Spore, and Red Alert 3 come out I'm going to need something better. I can spend about $150 on it. Any suggestions?

7/1/2008 3:24:25 PM

no there is nothing you can do, other than buying a new laptop

7/1/2008 3:31:41 PM

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"new laptop"

7/1/2008 3:34:49 PM

the gma950 is an onboard graphics card. they all inherently suck.

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"no there is nothing you can do, other than buying a new laptop"

unless your laptop was specifically designed to have a user-upgradable video card. since it came with a gma950, i highly doubt it was.

7/1/2008 3:36:09 PM

Unless they come out with express-card video cards like creative did with the express-card sound card. Although that's one reason i like my old dell laptop. The sound card/video card slides out and can be replaced. Bumped my laptop video card up to a 9800 pro 256meg a while back.

-one reason why i don't ever buy a laptop to game on. I'll just want to upgrade it at some point in time for a new game and won't be able to. Laptop=web/media/etc, desktop=gaming.

[Edited on July 1, 2008 at 3:43 PM. Reason : .]

7/1/2008 3:38:57 PM

well poop. so much for gaming at school... maybe my grades will go up now.

7/1/2008 3:52:42 PM

gaming at school=bad

7/1/2008 3:54:13 PM

^ everything in moderation

7/1/2008 4:26:53 PM

agreed, but there's some people who just can't limit themselves. Past 2 roommates have been halo/TF2 addicts.

7/1/2008 4:33:16 PM

it doesnt really help that all the machines in the east wing have second life on it

7/1/2008 4:50:20 PM

well getting addicted to second life, and getting addicted to TF2 are two completely different things.

7/1/2008 4:52:06 PM

^ i was referring to your

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"gaming at school=bad"

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7/1/2008 4:55:49 PM

is second life really gaming though? lol "second-second life"!!

7/1/2008 5:05:00 PM

MSI, Asus, and ATI are releasing an external video card, fyi, i thought more people would know about that

7/1/2008 6:08:30 PM

^as in, I'd be able to use one on my laptop?

7/1/2008 7:39:01 PM

yep, just google one of those companies and "external gpu"

do you at least have an expresscard slot?

7/1/2008 8:11:54 PM

^did it actually ever come out? I heard about it way back in Jan 2007:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/hands-on-with-the-asus-xg-station-external-gpu/

but i don't think it actually came out. asus website says:

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"The XG Station is currently scheduled to be released at the beginning of Q2 2007. A full package will include the XG Station graphics docking station, one ASUS EN7900GS graphics card and assorted accessories. "

Plus it was only a 7900gs.

[Edited on July 2, 2008 at 12:00 AM. Reason : ..]

7/2/2008 12:00:19 AM

ask and ye shall receive

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/04/fujitsu-siemens-lasso-external-graphics-card-get-spotted-shoul/

7/5/2008 8:20:28 PM