Videocards in laptops are a twitchy issue - there's been a couple of companies trying to create an upgradable video card spec for laptops, but none of them have really worked too well. It tends to be, well, A Bit Interesting due to wiring and cooling issues. (I have a Dell XPS2, with a portable GeForce card with 256MB of video RAM, and I refuse to actually use the thing on my lap. I like a lack of burns.) It's hard to upgrade the video, in short
The hard drive should be pretty easily upgradable, though, with the caveat given above. And if you haven't and can at this point, I really do recommend the best warrantee you can get - I have the Platinum 4-year.
(Which means that the one-pixel vertical line that's been appearing on my screen will get fixed tomorrow when someone comes to my house and replaces the LCD and the video card, just to make sure. And I pay nothing.)
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Date: 2006-08-09 04:28 pm (UTC)Videocards in laptops are a twitchy issue - there's been a couple of companies trying to create an upgradable video card spec for laptops, but none of them have really worked too well. It tends to be, well, A Bit Interesting due to wiring and cooling issues. (I have a Dell XPS2, with a portable GeForce card with 256MB of video RAM, and I refuse to actually use the thing on my lap. I like a lack of burns.) It's hard to upgrade the video, in short
The hard drive should be pretty easily upgradable, though, with the caveat given above. And if you haven't and can at this point, I really do recommend the best warrantee you can get - I have the Platinum 4-year.
(Which means that the one-pixel vertical line that's been appearing on my screen will get fixed tomorrow when someone comes to my house and replaces the LCD and the video card, just to make sure. And I pay nothing.)