New Laptop (Did I get a good deal?) +Help

[GraveRobberX]

Best Buy was having this sale on a 15.4" Dell Inspiron 1525 ($599)

These are the specs:

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/i...bberX/info.jpg

My Video Card is this:

Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile Report


Report Date: 07/19/2008
Report Time[hr:mm:ss]: 10:54:28
Driver Version: 7.14.10.1409
Operating System: Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium* , Service Pack 1 (6.0.6001)
Default Language: English
DirectX* Version: 10.0
Physical Memory: 3061 MB
Minimum Graphics Memory: 8 MB
Maximum Graphics Memory: 358 MB
Graphics Memory in Use: 164 MB
Processor: x86 family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13
Processor Speed: 1995 MHZ
Vendor ID: 8086
Device ID: 2A02
Device Revision: 0C


* Accelerator Information *

Accelerator in Use: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
Video BIOS: 1566
Current Graphics Mode: 1280 by 800 True Color (60 Hz)


Is there anyway I can switch my video card, cause I thought I could get away playing Fallout 3 or play some of the recent "Games for Windows" Mass Effect/Gears of War PC

Or am I fucked?

Thanks for looking, hopefully I get some replies

[Shuemue]

Highly unlikely that you can change the GPU. It's still a decent deal, but not cut out for serious gaming.

[Isiolia]

Is there anyway I can switch my video card, cause I thought I could get away playing Fallout 3 or play some of the recent "Games for Windows" Mass Effect/Gears of War PC

No. Gaming is not something you buy a budget laptop for. It won't even run all games from 5-6 years ago well, much less current ones.

It's a fine machine for general computing though.

$600 could probably build/upgrade you a desktop machine capable of running those games, if that was the primary reason you wanted one, and you can still return the laptop.