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Leareth
May 13, 2005, 04:33 PM
My School is having an insane sale right now on in stock powerbooks and iBooks, 15% of the EDU discount, but all the instock machines have 64Vram on them. I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade the graphics card after the fact? Since BTO does not count in the deals.


JeDiBoYTJ
May 13, 2005, 04:39 PM
sadly, no.

the VRAM chip is soldered right into the main logic board... theres no way to replace it unless you replace the entire thing. :(
stevey500
May 13, 2005, 09:22 PM
What if you are very good at soldering and replace the memory chips with larger/... would the machine reject the upgrade?
unfaded
May 13, 2005, 10:02 PM
What if you are very good at soldering and replace the memory chips with larger/... would the machine reject the upgrade?

I don't think anyone has tried to find out!
rockandrule
May 13, 2005, 11:12 PM
For that large of an upgrade, if you can't get the 128 VRAM, then just go with what they have. That's a great deal, and also keep in mind that there is the $100 Mail-in from Apple on any new computer bought for education purposes. (Excluding the 12" iBook with combo, mac mini, and eMac.)