Ok, I own a Dell Inspiron 710m, which I bought last December. It's been very good to me, as it has never broken down on me and has ran beautifully. However, the 100 GB of Hard Drive, 1GB of RAM, and 1.70 GHz Pentium M processor do me no good in my desire to display better graphics, specifically for Microsoft Vista '07. Now, before you guys start to criticize me for wanting a graphic upgrade for an OS, a graphics upgrade would be just nice to have overall. So, can someone please give me a solution to my graphics dilema. I know you can't put a graphic card in a laptop, but there's gotta be another way! - Thanks in advance.
2006-11-04 16:57:26 · 6 answers · asked by Rey 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
On certain high end laptops you can change your video card, but you initially buy one of these for the graphics, meaning that you wouldn't be asking here if you could upgrade it, so its safe to assume that you don't have one of these models. The best thing to do to get the best graphics performance from your laptop is upgrade your RAM to the highest capacity that your laptop will take. This only increases video performance by making the rest of the PC just that bit faster. The processor may be upgradeable as well, but you may not find info on that particular upgrade at Dell's site. You may need to crack it open and see if the CPU is in a socket or not. If it is in a socket, then you're in luck, it can probably be upgraded (flash the BIOS with the latest from Dell though FIRST). Usually you remove the keyboard, remove an IO shield, and then remove the heat spreader/fan assembly, and there sits the CPU. Of course if you want to use Aero, the only thing to do is get the minimum hardware requirements put in place by Microsoft. Chances are that your graphics card will not be up to par, so no amount of upgrades will help.
2006-11-04 17:08:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as a laptop, the graphics you have, are the graphics you keep. No way to upgrade graphics on a laptop. Only Hard drive, and memory. I called HP when I had a laptop from them and they pretty much told me, what I have is what I get. Updating a driver wont make a difference. Thats just one of the downfalls of laptops.
2006-11-04 16:59:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need a new laptop vista only works on the nf4 for amd and the 945 for intel those have very poor drive busses so youl need to run a usb dvd drive sometimes to prevent your laptop from locking up desk tops should be ok and they have specials now if you buy a new computer you get a free vista upgrade hp is having a sale and it will be cheeper to buy a new one than get memory and the os
2006-11-04 17:05:27 · answer #3 · answered by Douglas G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
???WHAT??? there are graphic a cards in laptop, i know i just bought my laptop today and upgraded it to the best graphic card they had, but you migh want to try to update ur graphic rendering software such as that um Active X stuff and other things like that
Good luck
2006-11-04 17:01:35 · answer #4 · answered by cwconline 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check to see if there is an upgrde for the graphics card in your laptop
2006-11-04 16:59:13 · answer #5 · answered by Ruth Less RN 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is.
1.sell laptop on ebay.
2.buy new laptop.
simple! see?
(in other words no way to upgrade it.)
2006-11-04 17:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by Bluekillzu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋