Even on the MacBook Pro?
So it actually has an 8600MGT chip not a card? :S
if i leave Apple stuff for any reason - this'll be why. Even with a Mac Pro i found you can only install Apple approved cards (read: cards made with EFI drivers) so they're still useless really for high end gaming.....
i found an alienware m15x with an 8800MGTX card (fastest laptop card) for £949..... jeez im tempted!![]()
The Mac Pro isn't really a gaming machine, it's a workstation. If you're a gamer, you stick to machines designed for gaming, not machines designed for professional use.
There aren't many laptops on the market where you can upgrade the graphics. That's one of the tradeoffs you make when you buy a laptop in the first place.if i leave Apple stuff for any reason - this'll be why.
The Mac Pro isn't really a gaming machine, it's a workstation. If you're a gamer, you stick to machines designed for gaming, not machines designed for professional use.
if i leave Apple stuff for any reason - this'll be why. Even with a Mac Pro i found you can only install Apple approved cards (read: cards made with EFI drivers) so they're still useless really for high end gaming.....
i found an alienware m15x with an 8800MGTX card (fastest laptop card) for £949..... jeez im tempted!![]()
I do not understand and will never agree that in the Macbook Pro there should be or it is a mediocre graphics card such as 9600m GT. Why to have two chips for graphics? Yes one is for professionals and the other for heavy duty tasks, more smarter professionals. However 9600m GT is not a such card. It is just an average graphics card and it is just suitable for few years old games that you bought and you did not have much time to play it before.
Okay, bye! Enjoy your four-inch thick slab of plastic you call an Alienware.
I was under the impression that aside from said Alienware, the only thing that could be upgraded in a laptop was the ram and hdd since the CPU socket or any PCI slots would take up way too much space. I was sure this had always been the case. That said, if I was a hardcore PC or Mac gamer I wouldn't use a laptop, I'd get a tower with proper cooling.
By what logic should you not be able to also switch out a laptop sized GPU?
you could always just take the graphics card off the board and replace it with another one with the same chipset. yes it is SMT but you can always just use hot air(i.e. a reflow station) and take the chip off, then put your new chip on.
lol... good luck with that.... 99.9% of people who even tried that would just ruin the whole board... and finding a chip that would even work isn't worth the hassle.
I've been a mac gamer for...ever and though i'm definitely tempted sometimes, i very much doubt i'll get a PC any time soon.
The only thing that bothers me though (and most other gamers, i'm sure) is the graphics cards (which usually has no upgrade path).
Games are becoming more and more dependent on graphics cards, so the problem is just getting worse
Still wishing for that mythical mac mini-tower![]()
You could buy an external graphics card.