video cards for laptops

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Is there a standard form factor for video cards for laptops? If so,
where can somebody buy standard laptop video cards?

I am also interested in the general problem of building a laptop from
barebones.
 
Is there a standard form factor for video cards for laptops? If so,
where can somebody buy standard laptop video cards?

I am also interested in the general problem of building a laptop from
barebones.
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Answers are no and forget about it.
 
Matt said:
Is there a standard form factor for video cards for laptops? If so,
where can somebody buy standard laptop video cards?

I am also interested in the general problem of building a laptop from
barebones.
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I think this is a PCI Express graphics for laptops. I believe
this may be standardized, but pcisig.com is a poor group in terms
of demonstrating their wares.

"GeForce Go 7800 GTX"
http://www.golem.de/0509/40733.html

"GeForce Go 6600"
http://www.computerbase.de/bild/news/10384/9/

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/02/08/go6600_preview/1.html

(MXM with thermal solution installed)
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1768305,00.asp

(MXM as it is about to be plugged in)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27779

This one is possibly AGP - Geforce Fx Go 5600 - form factor
doesn't look very practical, compared to the simple rectangle
of the ones above.

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/0319/nvidia.htm

Somebody asked a question about a barebones a few days
ago, and I was shocked at the price of the base unit.
It was $1100 Canadian. The problem for a home builder,
is the pricing for barebones like this is not going to
undercut the price of a laptop you can buy, so if you
were expecting a frenzy of price cutting by the suppliers
of barebones laptops, I think you can safely forget it.

And I haven't seen any of the above video cards for sale.
Yes, you can look at pictures, but may not touch :-)
Check back in a year's time, and things may be entirely
different.

And if you wanted to get into the business, expect to have
to buy pallet-loads of stuff as a minimum order. That would
be the only way to avoid the retail markup on components,
such as those video cards above.

Now, imagine you finished your build, and battery life is
30 minutes. What do you do then ?

Paul
 
Paul said:
I think this is a PCI Express graphics for laptops. I believe
this may be standardized
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Paul, thanks for the several links. They lead me to the short answer
that there is an emerging standard called MXM (Mobile PCI Express Module):

http://www.nvidia.com/page/mxm.html
Somebody asked a question about a barebones a few days
ago, and I was shocked at the price of the base unit.
It was $1100 Canadian. The problem for a home builder,
is the pricing for barebones like this is not going to
undercut the price of a laptop you can buy, so if you
were expecting a frenzy of price cutting by the suppliers
of barebones laptops, I think you can safely forget it.

And I haven't seen any of the above video cards for sale.
Yes, you can look at pictures, but may not touch :-)
Check back in a year's time, and things may be entirely
different.

And if you wanted to get into the business, expect to have
to buy pallet-loads of stuff as a minimum order. That would
be the only way to avoid the retail markup on components,
such as those video cards above.

Now, imagine you finished your build, and battery life is
30 minutes. What do you do then ?

Paul
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Your points about pricing and economy of scale are well taken, but I do
see for instance this MSI barebones under US$700, maybe without MXM, but
including a Geforce Go 6600 128MB subsystem of some kind.

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__MSI_MS_1032_Barebone_Notebook,__9906763/skd=1/search=geforce+go
 
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