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Laptop Video Upgrade

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the void-this dept.

captainstupid writes "The friendly folks over at GotApex? have a walkthrough of an interesting hack. They upgrade a Dell Inspiron's viedo card! It's cool to see the heat transfer mechanisms that they use to pull the heat away from the CPU as well as the GPU. Another fun way to void your warranty!"

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  1. Old, laptops with nice displays... by luiss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any info out there on converting laptop LCD into something with a VGA or DVI plug? I got some old rather worthless or broken laptops with nice displays that just seem like such a waste.

    1. Re:Old, laptops with nice displays... by grazzy · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Ok,

      I cant claim to have read this article entierly, but I guess I would make it a try..
      http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/13 /005247 &mode=nested&tid=137

      It would be totally AWESOME to build a own LCD-projector with your own laptop-screen as LCD, doing it with a laptop still capable to play movies wouldnt hurt either...

      BTW: does anyone know if this "hack" is doable on IBM T20's? I own one, Its a S3 in it, I dont like my S3 :-)