I have questions on the "guts" of a laptop.

[Yeojsav]

I'm thinking of opening up my old laptop to update everything, but I'm not sure how the insides of Laptops work, only desktops. I need help on where what card goes where(video, graphics etc.)meaning I don't know if the ports are the same as with desktops.

[Ad Bot]

[tay104]

You may as well just get a new laptop, which is more feasible than upgrading the internals of a laptop.  Besides the only thing you could possibly upgrade would be the harddrive and RAM.

[Nitramtj]

Thinkpads have a servicing website that has videos and other resources that walk you through the laptop. I don't know if that's really available for other brands though.

[Yeojsav]

It's just an original Dell Inspiron with horrible Kernals so I can't even get the latest Ubuntu.

[Yeojsav]

You may as well just get a new laptop, which is more feasible than upgrading the internals of a laptop.  Besides the only thing you could possibly upgrade would be the harddrive and RAM.

Graphics card, video card...

[Sebster 105]

You simply can't upgrade much in a laptop

It's annoying because I have an awesome everything accept video card

[Yeojsav]

Damn. I guess I will just buy another new laptop.

[Miga]

You can't upgrade the video card/GPU in a laptop unless you have a very expensive laptop. You can upgrade the processor (on most, at least), the RAM (on most), and the hard drive.

[Riot]

 I don't really know if this will help: http://www.pcworld.com/article/148909/upgrading_your_laptops_graphics_card.html

[Miga]

I don't really know if this will help: http://www.pcworld.com/article/148909/upgrading_your_laptops_graphics_card.html

That's for only THAT specific Dell, though. All others have integrated GPUs, for the most part.

[Riot]

That's for only THAT specific Dell, though. All others have integrated GPUs, for the most part.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061212004439AAMFpfx

 I did some searching and came up with the same conclusion.

 I'd suggest Alienware if you want heavy duty gaming.

[General Nick]

It's very hard to upgrade laptops because almost all of them are designed individually with custom parts. Desktops are easy to configure inside because they use universal parts like PCI-Express 2.0 x16.

As far as I know just about 98% of laptops can't be upgraded majorly.

I'd suggest Alienware if you want heavy duty gaming.

I wouldn't. They're expensive as diamonds and break easily.

I'd go for something from Asus. They make great gaming laptops.

[Riot]

 Can't you just ask the company to do it for you? I mean they probably have a fitting part for the type of laptop you use. They do the same with Alienware.

[Inv3rted]

I wouldn't. They're expensive as diamonds and break easily.

I'd go for something from Asus. They make great gaming laptops.

Alienware's new laptop models are cheaper and high quality, namely the M11x.

[Moppy]

You may as well just get a new laptop, which is more feasible than upgrading the internals of a laptop.  Besides the only thing you could possibly upgrade would be the harddrive and RAM.

I heard this somewhere before....