Upgrading Laptop gfx card?

[altwight]

I'm quite sure this is near impossible but do any of you have any tips? My mom left me her laptop which is relatively good it just lacks a video card.

edit: problem is i can't really find a site that would sell individual mobile graphics cards.

[Cephius]

Most mobile GPUs are built into the motherboard due to space constraints. You really can't upgrade them like you can with desktops.

[Callisto]

^ This. I think there's some high-end Alienware laptops that allow for upgradeable components, but in the majority of laptops everything but the hard drive and battery is hard-soldered to the motherboard.

[Dmitry]

What model laptop is it? That might help us determine if you can upgrade it for that model or not.

[Jonny]

no.

[Kelaiah]

The odds that you're stuck with whatever is in there is pretty damn high unless you inherited one of the few mobile workstation laptops with a replaceable video card (some of the higher end HP, Dell units, along with of course the aforementioned Alienwares)

[sruon]

Some laptops do have MXM interfaces.

If your laptop didn't have a graphic card to start with, it won't have a MXM slot.
Even if it does (0.5% chance), MXM graphic cards are extremely expensive.

[Deadgye]

Well.. there's hope- but not too much: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1522180

[Zeith]

That only counts as hope if your laptop has an mPCIe slot!

[Deadgye]

Express Card works too!