Shanghai / Moscow 07: Millimetre matters
A Director of MSI's Notebook sales Mr
Sambora Chern told Fudzilla that so far the company tries to stay away from Nvidia's MXM
graphic port. MXM will simply make any notebook a few millimetre
thicker and MSI doesn't believe that the end user will benefit from it.
Normally you don't want that your end
user cracks a notebook open and upgrade the graphics card as it can
easily break it and then send it to RMA. That of course costs you
money.
MSI simply picks the graphics card that
it believes that will be in demand for that period and integrates it
in the motherboard, and there is just enough place even for 512MB
graphics memory.
Once MSI decides to change the graphics
it has to redesign the notebook motherboard but usually that doesn't
take that long and the notebook graphics usually last a bit longer than
the desktop parts.
