Can you Upgrade a Notebook's Graphics Card?

I have a Sony Laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon for it's Graphics card, and I was wondering if there was anyway to use an external solution for a better graphics card. I've heard there are some PCI slot cards or something, but really I don't know too much about them. Thanks in advance.

Can you Upgrade a Notebook's Graphics Card?

Hi there, unless your system comes with the discrete card on the board, such as a lot of Dell systems do, then you couldn't upgrade the Video that way (which you already know). As for PCMCIA cards, I know of Video Capture cards for camera's and such, I'm just not aware of any graphic solutions for portables (and couldn't find anything on google).

A PCI video card is only for desktop systems.

Sorry, wish there was better news, Good Luck!

Can you Upgrade a Notebook's Graphics Card?

Generally you cannot upgrade the graphics card on a laptop. It's built-in to the motherboard.

Desktops have PCI slots. Laptops do not.

Sorry.

Can you Upgrade a Notebook's Graphics Card?

Citizen is correct. However, just to add to his answer: Some of the very high end boutique laptops, like Alienware, have separate video modules. However, those are built specificly for those models, and would not fit in anything else. The truth is, Alienware didn't make them, it's made somewhere in Taiwan and Alienware just put their name on it. Same laptop could show up in a different name elsewhere.