many laptops serve that purpose. Mine runs Halo 2 at 1024x768 on low, 30 fps.Originally Posted by skyline
Anyway, if you want to "upgrade" a laptop's video card...
ASUS XG Station
MSI Luxium
Those two devices are basically enclosures that let you stick in a desktop PCI-express video card and connect it to a laptop via an ExpressCard slot (you must have the full-size slot, not the expresscard 34 slot found on Macbooks). It's nowhere near as fast as putting it in a real desktop computer, but it is a good way to bring high-end video to a crappy laptop. By the way, you can only game at home at your desk if you do this, because the enclosure is heavy and needs its own power supply.
Cyberpower, Dell, Alienware, Sager, and Voodoo have adopted a format called MXM (Nvidia only), which is an attempt to make a standard PCI express for laptops. MXM means that you can actually take out the card and stick in a new one, but you cannot do this for integrated video.
Omega, you're essentially stuck with your laptop - either buy a new system altogether or get one of the two devices I mentioned (when they come into retail...)
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