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    Hel80 MXM?

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by Ice-Tea, Aug 11, 2006.

  1. Ice-Tea

    Ice-Tea MXM Guru NBR Reviewer

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    Ok, so now I'm very curious. According to the driver the Hel 30 is probably MXM, but what about the 80?

    I understand if you guys don't want to pop the hood on that brand new puppy, but if you guys would happen to have the driver handy and could send me the *.inf? Finding Compal drivers is like finding... well, I can't say that or it'll get censored anyways :D
     
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    aurawolf Notebook Consultant

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    I asked that question of the powernotebook guys and the response I got was, it is not MXM but the graphics card is on an add in card of some type. I have seen the pictures of the internals and it looks like the card is screwed in near the center of the laptop with the heatpipe ending at it.
     
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    Any chance of that picture still lying around somewhere?
     
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    I see mxm references in the hel80 vga driver inf files.
     
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    Yay!

    Any chance you could send me a copy?
     
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    check inbox, PM sent.
     
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    Justin at XoticPC did a review and posted a lot of pics, including ones of the insides w/o any components installed (see this topic.) In the closeup for the processor bay, I don't see anything that looks like an MXM slot. Please tell me I'm wrong, b/c I want to buy one of these and would love an MXM slot.

    Does Intel's VBI "thing" say anything about requiring MXM? I ask b/c this machine (I think) is supposed to be VBI (or at least close to it.)


    -j
     
    joemadeus, Aug 12, 2006
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    The HEL80 is the non-VBI version and the EL80 is the VBI version. Neither use MXM for the video card.
     
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    I was under the impression that MXM is a technology that never really took off. Aren't MXM laptops very rare these days?
     
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    That is correct chrisyano, it was a great theory but doesn't really work because the card you want to upgrade to will almost always require a stronger thermal solution and more power.

    Therefore even if you could physically remove one card and replace it with another, no one could count on whether it would work.

    Since it is quite a bit more expensive to use the MXM slots, most laptop manufacturers abandoned this technology...at least for now...
     
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    Hey all, sorry for the late reply, been away.

    Thank you all for the help, I can't exactly find a MXM slot in the pictures either. Remains the question why they included a MXM reference in the driver, but that may be just a bad copy job, then. Maybe they just copied from lv2g ;)

    Anyways, Chrisiano and Donald, you may want to check the Table in my sig. There are more than most people think and there are new ones that are coming out, even though I will have to prune the Compal reference from the table :D
     
    Ice-Tea, Aug 19, 2006
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