Safe to get 8800M GTX now?

True but it would be a way for manufacturers to make some money in between laptop purchases. I know I am only going to buy a laptop once every 3 years or so but I would upgrade in between those years if the upgrades were available. I currently own two alienwares for home (one for my wife and one for me) and a sager for work. If the sager proves to be more upgradeable then I would probably lean towards sager for my future purchases even though I like the alienware better. My M9750's are fantastic laptops, very well made, thin and light for a 17", and build quality is superb but I am really dissapointed I won't be able to upgrade as I was told I would be able to by the sales person that sold me the laptops.

 

See that is my reasoning for thinking about upgrades on laptops. If you could buy a system that 100% guarranteed upgradability you woudl lean more to them. I know I would. I would still buy a new system every 3 years, but it would be nice to upgrade in between.

It's like the 7900 gtx in the XPS m170. It physically fits with the removal of one support post. And then it is locked down with the BIOS. Making people have to buy another system. I also remember alot of Dell buyer were so upset then eventually switched to Sager systems. At the time they were promising upgrades asweell. That never really worked out.

 

people say that the main reason some laptops cant be upgraded is because the parts were soldered in. could you not just get a soldering iron, remove them and place in the new piece of gear?

 

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Who are these "people"? Where is Lithus and his Unicorn stick of Ignorance when you need him?

 

Lol yeah for shure, I just solder around my laptop... Have you ever soldered SMD parts? That requires high skills and will kill the hardware you want to modify with a very high probability... Btw most of the items one may want to replace for an upgrade are already in sockets (CPU, RAM, dedicated graphics, even WLAN and TM modules, harddisk and diskdrive are swappable also)...