I wonder why manufacturers have chosen to make the graphics cards on notebooks so hard to upgrade. I think it is a choice they have made to build them like that and that’s a shame too.  I know there are some specialty notebook makers out there that offer some kind up upgradeability for their notebooks graphics’ but  I think all notebooks should be upgradeable. What  I want to know is why can’t they set up their graphics cards in some sort of modular bay.  When you want to upgrade your graphics just go out and purchase a new graphics card, install it in the modular graphics tray and slide it in.  Lets say a  gamer goes out  and spends a few thousand on a gaming notebook to take to lan parties or maybe their a student with a small dorm room and only have space for a notebook but still want to be able to relax and play their graphics intensive game; so they go out and drop a few thousand on a good gaming notebook  with a high end dual core or quad core processor , lots of ram, and a good graphics card and they are happy.  Ok a year or two down the road and a new crop of games comes out  and they can still play them but their notebooks struggling. They check the recommended specs and see that  their processor is plenty strong enough and they have more then enough ram and uh oh their graphics  which were cutting edge just two years ago is now considered  a mid level graphics solution. So where does that leave them? Having to spend another few thousand on a new gaming notebook?  Paying someone a boatload of money to dismantle their notebook and install a new graphics card?  Perhaps  praying to the all powerful frame rate gods to  bless your  notebook with more power. With the graphics cards sitting in  easily accessible  modular bays  it would just be a matter of  purchasing a new graphics card or two and sliding them in.  I have to honestly say I don’t see a downside here. Notebook manufacturers will sell more notebooks because  people will be more willing to spend money on a product they know will have  longer usable lifespan. Graphics card manufacturers will have another market they can sell product to and consumers will get more for their money.  Now we just need a manufacturer to be the first one to do it. Gaming notebooks  wouldn’t be the only ones to benefit. Take my notebook a Compaq v5000series. It is a good notebook. A little older but still works well. Its only real downside  is the old ati mobility Radeon express 200. Now if I could upgrade  that to a newer card with its own dedicated memory that would make this old notebook seem new again.