When I was looking for a gaming laptop 2 years ago, I couldn’t find any that didn’t have the graphics card soldered on. I looked into building a laptop myself, but I couldn’t even find cases to buy. Am I just the most dumbest Googler?
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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MXM GPUs never really caught on, and nobody builds their own laptop, it's just not a thing like it is with desktops.
Best option if you want upgradable graphics would be an external Thunderbolt dock, but even then there are plenty of caveats there.
I looked into them, too. But at the time I wasn’t sure enough this would actually work well. If I’m buying a graphics card for , I don’t want 30% of the juice going down the drain because it’s external.
Laptops in 2023: Wait, wait, wait. You're telling me you want ports?
or, more accurately,
Laptops in 2023: If you want ports, use a USB hub.
Laptops in 2000: Here's multiple USB ports, VGA, Mini Displayport, a fucking smartcard reader, SD card reader, ethernet port and docking port
Edit: just as an FYI this is referring to the T450 (which is the one i have), also added docking port because those count.
Always used a hub even with my old T420, nothing changed for me. It's even better, cause I got two display outputs and multiple charging ports now 🤷