Reply-Forwarding another "private" answer to the list. (Dear Admin, either reactivate ReplyTo-Munging even if it is not RFC-compliant or explain the reply-to-list to _all_ members in detail...) 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 -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a rm / -rf. Or ask your administrator to do so...
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