Can my mobility Radeon 9200 be upgraded?

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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Can the iBook video card be replaced, by conventional means?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    mcqmcq Posts: 1,543member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ganondorf

    Can the iBook video card be replaced, by conventional means?



    No.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    g-newsg-news Posts: 1,107member
    why would you want to do that? the 9200 mobility already is the second best mobile GPU on the market, at least from ATI.

    Are you telling me, you're unhappy with its performance?

    I hardly think there is any sense in complaining, when neither iBook surpasses the 1GHz barrier, which is clearly the limiting factor in iBooks now, not the GPU.



    G-News
  • Reply 3 of 5
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Uh, settle down there G-News. He was just asking. Since the GPU is built into the motherboard, it's impossible to replace by any means, conventional or unconventional. It's a pretty good mobile GPU, yes, but it's not the best available today and it'll only get more obsolete as time passes.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Luca Rescigno

    ...and it'll only get more obsolete as time passes.



    Is this not true with any gpu, or any cpu for that matter?
  • Reply 5 of 5
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    Of course it is. I'm just saying that top of the line today will still be comparable to bottom of the line a while from now. So, if you bought a Radeon 8500 two years ago when it was top of the line, it would be comparable to the bottom of the line chip today (the Radeon 9200). Also, two years ago the best CPU in an Apple system was the 867 MHz G4, and now the 800 MHz G4 is the slowest one used.
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