Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 28, 2002 12:24 AM
Actually most laptops are upgradable, I have added memory to mine (less that 2 minutes and asingle screw) upgraded the harddrive (5 screws).
Most laptop vendors will tell you how you have to buy "thier" RAM to upgrade, go to <A HREF="http://www.crucial.com/">Crucial</a crucial.com> and save your self a pile of cash (Dell charges about double for the same memory).
True we are not to the point where vidoe can be upgraded, but we are moving there, now that video card makers are honing in on the laptop market, and to drive prices down, laptop builders are getting modular, which is easier, putting a onboard 3rd party graphics chip on a propriatray mootherboard, or having a module that plugs in via a standard socket.
Network and modem card have been interchangable for years (PCMCIA), yes internals are cheaper, but these are not "user" removable (geeks have no problem removing some as many are just a "module" of some sort).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 28, 2002 12:24 AMMost laptop vendors will tell you how you have to buy "thier" RAM to upgrade, go to <A HREF="http://www.crucial.com/">Crucial</a crucial.com> and save your self a pile of cash (Dell charges about double for the same memory).
True we are not to the point where vidoe can be upgraded, but we are moving there, now that video card makers are honing in on the laptop market, and to drive prices down, laptop builders are getting modular, which is easier, putting a onboard 3rd party graphics chip on a propriatray mootherboard, or having a module that plugs in via a standard socket.
Network and modem card have been interchangable for years (PCMCIA), yes internals are cheaper, but these are not "user" removable (geeks have no problem removing some as many are just a "module" of some sort).
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