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    posting this from a thinkpad instead of my main pc just for the meme (thelemmy.club)
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    [–] bleistift2@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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?

    [–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

    Framework sells the individual parts to their systems, when I was looking into it there wasn’t really a cost benefit to doing it all by hand though.

    Their new 16 inch system has a modular GPU. Should be able to upgrade it in the future.

    [–] reallynotnick@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] bleistift2@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

    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.

    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 2 points 1 year ago

    Graphic cards are always soldered on in modern gaming laptop. The only way to upgrade the GPU is by using an external GPU, and making sure you only buy a laptop that support eGPU.

    [–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

    The Sager laptops I’ve had all came with user-replaceable GPUs. Not sure if that’s still the case, but here’s one distributor, you can always contact them and ask:

    https://lpc-digital.com/contact-us/