I’ve been a long-time supporter of upgradeable video cards in laptops for some time. The days of buying a several thousand dollar machine every year or two should be at an end. I started an online petition some time back to encourage manufacturers to do the right thing.

Although Dell offered the XPS and 9100 systems not long ago, which do provide a single video upgrade, they are not true upgradeable laptops because it is entirely up to Dell to decide what you should be able to upgrade to, and we know they would prefer you just bought another laptop.

A Canadian company called Eurocom has just released a PCI express MXM architecture desktop replacement laptop, MXM is an Nvidia technology that provides a similar function to laptops that a normal AGP or PCIE slot does in a desktop machine, an interchangeable video adaptor system.

To see my petition to Dell you should head over here. To read more about the Eurocom upgradeable laptop, which has some very impressive stats, you should read this article at TheInquirer.

Franki

This article was posted on Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 at 4:28 pm