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Ok, so i ordered the Dell Inspiron 17R in March of 2011. It came with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 card. I talked with Dell support about upgrading the card because i have come to realize it isn't the best. The tech support guy recommended the NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M (128-bit) 1GB card. This would be a great card for games I play such as SWTOR. Now, my question is, can I upgrade the card in this laptop? The guy in tech support said i can except he didnt really sound like he knew what he was talking about. So I now rely on you community. Can my graphics card for this laptop be upgraded?
@Dr Tech: So my laptop isn't one of those special ones that you can upgrade the card? And that guy told me the card was way better, well i guess im not surprised that he lied to me.
@Velenoso: Thank you very much for that information!
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Dr tech is right about your laptops graphics card is soldered, but there is a way to get around this. Dell support may have told you a half truth, you can get put a GT525 in your laptop, but your going to have to change the whole motherboard to do it. Because your Dell Inspiron 17R does come out with the NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M in more expensive versions, you can change the motherboard from a motherboard like yours with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 to one with the NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M or even an ATI Mobility Radeon graphics card which is more powerful. I'd be looking at this seeing it will cost around $400 but then you could sell your motherboard probably get $200 or so for it, it's probably a whole lot cheaper than buying a new laptop.
The NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M (ranked 119 th) is almost twice as good as the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 (ranked 202 nd) by this list http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
Dr tech is right about your laptops graphics card is soldered, but there is a way to get around this. Dell support may have told you a half truth, you can get put a GT525 in your laptop, but your going to have to change the whole motherboard to do it. Because your Dell Inspiron 17R does come out with the NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M in more expensive versions, you can change the motherboard from a motherboard like yours with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 to one with the NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M or even an ATI Mobility Radeon graphics card which is more powerful. I'd be looking at this seeing it will cost around $400 but then you could sell your motherboard probably get $200 or so for it, it's probably a whole lot cheaper than buying a new laptop.
The NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 525M (ranked 119 th) is almost twice as good as the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 (ranked 202 nd) by this list http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html
What is difference between laptop and EeePad?
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A laptop, also called a notebook, is a personal computer for mobile use. A laptop integrates most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device (a touchpad, also known as a trackpad, and/or a pointing stick) and speakers into a single unit. A laptop is powered by mains electricity via an AC adapter, and can be used away from an outlet using a rechargeable battery.
Portable computers, originally monochrome CRT-based and developed into the modern laptops, and were originally considered to be a small niche market, mostly for specialized field applications such as the military, accountants and sales representatives. As portable computers became smaller, lighter, cheaper, more powerful and as screens became larger and of better quality, laptops became very widely used for all sorts of purposes.
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The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer announced at CES 2011 and launched on March 30, 2011. The Transformer design includes an optional docking keyboard.
The Eee Pad is a tablet computer with a 10.1" IPS multi-touch screen with a resolution of 1280x800 and an Nvidia Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip (SoC). It has a 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi module, but lacks 3G connectivity; a 3G variant will be available in the coming months. In a direct question to ASUS, Australian representatives stated that they are planning a 2011 Q3-Q4 release of the 3G variant. The price at launch of the Eee Pad was £379 (£429 with dock).
The optional docking keyboard features full QWERTY keys, trackpad, two USB 2.0 ports and one SD card reader as well as an additional battery that increases overall battery life from 9.5 hours to 16 hours.
The USB ports support USB memory of any kind and also NTFS-formatted media with files larger than 4 GB. Also the SD card slot supports NTFS-formatted Media.
The units marketed in Canada marked CBIL (Canadian BI Lingual) have a slightly modified keyboard layout in addition to support of accented characters. The Shift key and Enter key have been made smaller to accommodate two additional keys.
The Transformer originally ran a modified version of Android 3.1 (Honeycomb), but has since been updated to Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). The physical keys (home, back, menu) have been skinned to resemble the standard Android phone keys.
The tablet is bundled with MyNet, MyLibrary, MyCloud, Press Reader, MyDesktop and Polaris Office 3, for full document editing.
The first software update was released by ASUS on 16 April 2011. This updated the system with extra widgets for MyZine, which is a desktop widget shop, for weather, email, calendar, gallery, etc. It also added MyCloud, a remote desktop app.
As of early June 2011, the Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) version of Android was released for the Eee Pad Transformer. This added the ability to change the size of compatible widgets, added a large scroll bar to the browser, and allowed scrolling of the currently open applications screen, allowing many applications to be switched to quickly. There were also general usability and speed updates.
On 16 July 2011 another OTA software update for the Transformer was released. Beside the updates of the connectivity modules of the device, this changed the splashscreen, updated various apps, disabled the auto-rotate feature when the tablet is docked and added the Nvidia TegraZone market, with specific dual-core Tegra units apps and games.
On the 2 August 2011 the Transformer received an update to the Honeycomb 3.2 version of Android and various minor updates. On 23 August 2011 the Transformer received an additional update, adding compatibility for the Netflix application.
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A laptop, also called a notebook, is a personal computer for mobile use. A laptop integrates most of the typical components of a desktop computer, including a display, a keyboard, a pointing device (a touchpad, also known as a trackpad, and/or a pointing stick) and speakers into a single unit. A laptop is powered by mains electricity via an AC adapter, and can be used away from an outlet using a rechargeable battery.
Portable computers, originally monochrome CRT-based and developed into the modern laptops, and were originally considered to be a small niche market, mostly for specialized field applications such as the military, accountants and sales representatives. As portable computers became smaller, lighter, cheaper, more powerful and as screens became larger and of better quality, laptops became very widely used for all sorts of purposes.
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The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet computer announced at CES 2011 and launched on March 30, 2011. The Transformer design includes an optional docking keyboard.
The Eee Pad is a tablet computer with a 10.1" IPS multi-touch screen with a resolution of 1280x800 and an Nvidia Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip (SoC). It has a 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi module, but lacks 3G connectivity; a 3G variant will be available in the coming months. In a direct question to ASUS, Australian representatives stated that they are planning a 2011 Q3-Q4 release of the 3G variant. The price at launch of the Eee Pad was £379 (£429 with dock).
The optional docking keyboard features full QWERTY keys, trackpad, two USB 2.0 ports and one SD card reader as well as an additional battery that increases overall battery life from 9.5 hours to 16 hours.
The USB ports support USB memory of any kind and also NTFS-formatted media with files larger than 4 GB. Also the SD card slot supports NTFS-formatted Media.
The units marketed in Canada marked CBIL (Canadian BI Lingual) have a slightly modified keyboard layout in addition to support of accented characters. The Shift key and Enter key have been made smaller to accommodate two additional keys.
The Transformer originally ran a modified version of Android 3.1 (Honeycomb), but has since been updated to Android 3.2 (Honeycomb). The physical keys (home, back, menu) have been skinned to resemble the standard Android phone keys.
The tablet is bundled with MyNet, MyLibrary, MyCloud, Press Reader, MyDesktop and Polaris Office 3, for full document editing.
The first software update was released by ASUS on 16 April 2011. This updated the system with extra widgets for MyZine, which is a desktop widget shop, for weather, email, calendar, gallery, etc. It also added MyCloud, a remote desktop app.
As of early June 2011, the Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) version of Android was released for the Eee Pad Transformer. This added the ability to change the size of compatible widgets, added a large scroll bar to the browser, and allowed scrolling of the currently open applications screen, allowing many applications to be switched to quickly. There were also general usability and speed updates.
On 16 July 2011 another OTA software update for the Transformer was released. Beside the updates of the connectivity modules of the device, this changed the splashscreen, updated various apps, disabled the auto-rotate feature when the tablet is docked and added the Nvidia TegraZone market, with specific dual-core Tegra units apps and games.
On the 2 August 2011 the Transformer received an update to the Honeycomb 3.2 version of Android and various minor updates. On 23 August 2011 the Transformer received an additional update, adding compatibility for the Netflix application.
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