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Hi there

Can one upgrade your Macbook graphics card? If so where should one go?

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Nope - afaik - its got integrated graphics.

You could upgrade to a MacBook Pro.
 
bwana said:
Something about those prices that make them so much more worthwhile than local retailers?
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Have local prices appreciated yet? Doesn't CORE control those?

TransIntl RAM is Apple certified yet usually much cheaper, anyway.
 
PeterCH said:
Have local prices appreciated yet? Doesn't CORE control those?

TransIntl RAM is Apple certified yet usually much cheaper, anyway.
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WRT a Macbook - is Apple certified ram going to make any difference?
 
bwana said:
WRT a Macbook - is Apple certified ram going to make any difference?
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I admit I dunno. I'm only used to Mac Pros. :) They need the RAM with special cooling heatsinks and thermal paste. Running ordinary ECC RAM
makes the MP heat up and the fans go into taxing airliner mode.
 
Mu$tang said:
Inability to upgrade is one of Apple's trademarks IMHO. Nearly all their consumer stuff is like that.
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Most laptops are like that not just Apple's.
 
Sputnik said:
other than memory and hard drives what else is there to upgrade on laptops? apple or any other brand?
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I put a math coprocessor into my 1400C - does that count :D
 
bwana said:
WRT a Macbook - is Apple certified ram going to make any difference?
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I have Crucial memory in mine - works absolutely fine. It was the RAM that Crucial lists when you specify the MacBook, but as far as I know the MacBooks can take generic RAM.

Mu$tang said:
Inability to upgrade is one of Apple's trademarks IMHO. Nearly all their consumer stuff is like that.
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What bwana said. In fact, I've seen worse from other manufacturers. My HP nx6125 could not even take 3rd party hard drives. The drive in mine failed (HP firmwared Seagate) and I happen to have a spare Hitachi drive. I popped it in, fired up a XP install - it took all night. It turns out DMA wasn't disabled. But I couldn't enable it, even after installing drivers. Booting into Linux I had the same problem - trying to force DMA gave me an illegal operation (iirc). I found later that Seagate drives work, so I guess the BIOS check is rather rudimentary. But it proves that it's a silly restriction. When finding out about a replacement drive, I was shocked to learn that HP charged almost R3000 for the 80GB 5400rpm drive, when, at the time, I could buy a Seagate drive for under R1000.

That's not all. I found, on HP's website, and Intel wireless mini-PCI card, that was listed as compatible with the nx6125. Since broadcom support in Linux at the time was suspect at best, I ordered it, and put it in. It wouldn't even boot up. It stopped at post with a message "Incompatible wireless device, please remove." WTF??? :eek:
 
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Geez, RAM has gotten cheap. When I bought 2GB (2x 1GB) for my HP, not too many years ago, it was over R1000 each. You don't want to know how much a 1MB (yes, MegaBite) sub was for the 286...
 
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