Acer V3-772G-9402 has MXM slot?

Hi, I am interested in buying the V3-772G-9402 notebook that has the Geforce GTX 760m graphics card, I have searched the manual and not found it. My question is, this notebook has Mobile PCI Express Module slot (MXM)? That is you can change this card for another?.

Thank you very much.

 

No it doesn't have MXM, it's no longer being used by Acer.

 

downloads, do you know, maybe acer is planning to produce new notebooks with mxm slots?

 

Nope.. They wont else they go for a gamer series

 

Damn it. Even 5739G or 7738G were not gaming laptops, but they were very good and with great upgrade possibilities. Now almost every notebook manufacturer is chasing that super-mega-turbo-ultrabook with RAM and hard drive upgrade possibilities only. -_-

 

Yeah exactly. For whatever reason phones have to be slimmer and slimmer (even at the expense of the battery capacity) and notebooks have to be ultrabook-like which makes cooling and upgrades harder, not to mention the keyboard travel on those.

That said I understand Acer. Most customers never even upgrade RAM or HDD let alone GPU. Integrating GPU into the mobo is surely cheaper and allows for a slimmer profile at the same time this will affect a really limited number of people, especially considering Acer was never gamers' favorite brand.

 

For one hand. For another, thinking of upgrade possibilities making laptops upgradable and manufacturing various additional equipment for them would bring more money for notebook manufacturers. For example, making budget upgradable laptops manufacturer can "push" users to buy additional pats for their notebook, that is just the question of time. For instance, when I bought my 5739G - I was happy enough with that. 2 years after I needed better performance and it was upgraded than. If those parts would be provided by manufacturer, in this case by acer, than I would buy them from Acer and, thus, bring more money for that manufacturer. And the games were not the only reason - usage of professional CAD software was the reason too.

 

I don't want to drag this thread off-topic but since we've started this discussion already...

You could possibly upgrade RAM, HDD, CPU and GPU - none of which is manufactured by Acer. They could re-sell you MXM cards made by MSI or use non-standard cards (like Asus) to force you to use theirs. The latter solution kind of defeats the purpose of a universal upgradeable slot.

Also it might be something that would hurt them rater than give them more revenue. My notebook is almost 4 years old and with SSD and CPU upgrade I'm quite pleased with it.
I will replace it though, because GPU won't be enough to deal with GTA V (or maybe is already not enough to deal with Thief). As a result I'll buy a whole new notebook (probably from Acer) rather than an MXM module that Acer would re-sell hoping I'd buy from them rather than from MXM-upgrade.

And last but not least - upgrading MXM cards is a niche. They saved more money giving up on recovery DVDs and forcing all their customers to burn your own, than they would earn on those of us who would upgrade (that is ignoring the fact they they would be prolonging life of their notebooks possibly hurting sales).

On top of that they would have to employ support staff (which they don't do now). In essence they would become second Dell - only worse than original Dell since they don't have the brand name associated with hight quality.

I understand your arguments but we are talking what we wish they would do from our point of view and what they care about is revenue and notebook sales (which dropped alarmingly by the way)

 

upgrading the cpu and gpu isn't that feasible anymore as it is more costly compared to buying a new and much better laptop, meaning buying it in a bundle is cheaper than buying it by parts. what you need is just disk drive and ram upgrade that will get you through the next 4-5 years. remember that we are talking about laptops here. if you want upgrades, desktops are more feasible. remember when you talk about significant upgrades, you have to take into consideration the mobo, psu and cooling solution as well. you have to consider compatibility and the system requirement for running the hardware.