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Re: [LUG] OT: New Laptop recommendation.

 

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:49:02 +0100
Simon Williams wrote:

> Ray Smith wrote:
> > It musn't have in built graphics
> 
> You can't get laptops without built-in graphics cards because of the
> way they interact with the TFT screen. That's why laptop screens are
> almost always faster than free standing TFTs and have sane options
> like switching off screen expansion.
> 
> Of course, if such a thing does exist, I really want to know about it!
> 
> Simon
> 
Hi Simon,

A friend of mine who works (or worked... haven't spoken to him in a
while) for Sony had a "laptop" (although it was fairly big) where it
was possible to change the graphics card.  It's possible that it wasn't
a normal "production" machine and so wasn't a normal connection, but he
did remove said card for me to demonstrate and it had a connector of
approximately the same dimensions as the RAM.

Grant.

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