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  1. Re:Vendors by Khyber · · Score: 1 · on Steam Prompts OS X Graphics Update

    http://www.mxm-upgrade.com/

    There you go. Even have SLI-capable cards.

  2. Re:Alienware by Ceseuron · · Score: 1 · on Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves

    Did you realize that you are completely wrong about this? The D900T is not MXM.

    So the answer is no, I did not try purchasing an incompatible MXM video card to put in a laptop that it wouldn't fit in. I also said I didn't buy the laptop, nor would I ever buy Alienware. Please read the post and know your hardware before responding.

  3. Re:No surprise by drinkypoo · · Score: 1 · on Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays

    Guess what your HP nw9440 can do? Swap out graphics cards. There's an MXM slot inside that holds your graphics card.

    not according to mxm-upgrade.com. It's an almost-MXM slot.

    This machine has been an unmitigated piece of shit, and if you love them, I hate you. HPQ fucked up the EDID and has been completely, utterly, and totally incompetent about supporting everything about this laptop. Whoever decided to use the same model number for about eight different part numbers should be shot in the head, today, not tomorrow. This machine can overheat itself just sitting at a boot prompt - but it doesn't shut down, it thermally throttles itself so it becomes unresponsive, then you turn it off with the power switch, then it won't turn on until it sits there passively cooling for a while.

    This laptop is the biggest piece of shit I've ever owned, and I'll be exceptionally happy when I have moved on.

    With that said, if you know where I can get the QuadroFX1500M 512MB module that was installed in the Core 2 Duo models (mine is a Core Duo) then maybe I'll try that. But I can probably only get one as a pull, and there are precious few of those out there on the market. I got mine a week or so after they hit the market, and my 3-year service plan is JUST NOW about to expire. Being a business-class system, I'd bet a lot of people got the 3-year contract, and a lot of other people even paid to have them fixed.

    My motherboard is getting replaced on monday, hope that solves my chronic dvd-rom-ejects-for-no-particular-reason-when-the-laptop-is-touched bug.

    If you meet the guy who designed this thing, kick him in the balls for me.

    P.S. I hope that HP goes out of business very soon now. I am never buying anything else from them. I should have realized they were bastards when they all but stopped selling duplex units.

    P.P.S. My iPaq H2215 is a piece of crap too.

  4. Re:nothing really useful by darthflo · · Score: 1 · on NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod
    I stand corrected. Haven't followed the MXM market all that much in the past few years, so I should probably have expected that.

    Anyways, some quick googling indicates several no-name and even a few brands (Alienware, fsc, HP) actually implementing MXM -- impressive, you were totally right on that count. What you forgot to mention, though, is that people don't even try selling new cards. Check this. Even nVidia Staff (a Moderator) can only point to ebay and a rather dubious source (I don't mind one-person-enterprises, but if those cards are as popular as you're making them out to be, this looks fucking unprofessional).

    Have you ever shopped around for laptops with removable cards
    Nope. I like my laptops to be portable, robust and tend to use them for dull "work" purposes, so that's IBM/Lenovo all the way. I'm quite happy with the current state of removable cards in desktops, tho. The greatest advantage is cards actually being available.

    [...] before, let alone performed repair work for a company that manufactures cards with swappable graphics cards?
    Nope. I'm a wasteful person. If a notebook of mine breaks (which, thanks to IBM/Lenovo's quality engineering and the absolute lack of MXM cards), I'll simply eBay it off or retire it into my closet. Not having to perform repair work only gets beaten by one thing: not having to perform repair work on MXM-equipped laptops. Trust me, I enjoy it each and every single day.
  5. Re:nothing really useful by darthflo · · Score: 1 · on NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod
    I stand corrected. Haven't followed the MXM market all that much in the past few years, so I should probably have expected that.

    Anyways, some quick googling indicates several no-name and even a few brands (Alienware, fsc, HP) actually implementing MXM -- impressive, you were totally right on that count. What you forgot to mention, though, is that people don't even try selling new cards. Check this. Even nVidia Staff (a Moderator) can only point to ebay and a rather dubious source (I don't mind one-person-enterprises, but if those cards are as popular as you're making them out to be, this looks fucking unprofessional).

    Have you ever shopped around for laptops with removable cards
    Nope. I like my laptops to be portable, robust and tend to use them for dull "work" purposes, so that's IBM/Lenovo all the way. I'm quite happy with the current state of removable cards in desktops, tho. The greatest advantage is cards actually being available.

    [...] before, let alone performed repair work for a company that manufactures cards with swappable graphics cards?
    Nope. I'm a wasteful person. If a notebook of mine breaks (which, thanks to IBM/Lenovo's quality engineering and the absolute lack of MXM cards), I'll simply eBay it off or retire it into my closet. Not having to perform repair work only gets beaten by one thing: not having to perform repair work on MXM-equipped laptops. Trust me, I enjoy it each and every single day.
  6. Re:Dell by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 2, Informative · on Notebook PC Manufacturer Who Will Sell Parts?

    New systems are staring to come with mxm slots
    The 24-inch I-mac uses one.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXM
    http://www.mxm-upgrade.com/
    http://www.nvidia.com/page/mxm.html

  7. It means nothing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Future of Laptop Upgrade Ability?

    Other than minipci wireless cards, standardization has not occured in videocard form factors. nVidia introduced MXM for that very purpose but it hasn't been taken up too well by the industry. The MXM Upgrade weaves a depressing tale of the general concensus of laptop manufactureres. Although some are using it, most echo the sentiments of ASUS:

    "An ASUS representative told us they are dropping the MXM concept, quoting additional costs, niche market and added height. Too bad!"

    Don't expect a modular laptop any time soon. The main problem behind this is laptop manufacturers don't want a recreation of the IBM clone market with dozens of white box vendors driving prices down. They'd rather control the entire process so that process stay artificially high. Companies like Dell will sell you replacement components for a particular laptop so you can change LCD screens, video cards, etc that exist for that particular model but don't expect a general laptop-ATX standard layout any time soon.

    In conclusion, hard drive and WLAN cards are about it for universal components. After that you buy model specific upgrades that cost more than buying the entire machine new with those parts. Maybe its time we start pushing the industry in this direction?