Replacing laptop graphics cards

[gf4200isdabest]

I'm gonna need a laptop for college next year. The college I'm going to be attending provides incoming freshmen with a decent laptop but it has a sucky graphics card.

1) Is it possible to replace said graphics card with something better?
2) What's the best thing out? Is something better going to be coming out between now and September?
3) What reliable store sells laptop graphics cards?

 

[smp]

There's no such thing as a "laptop graphics card" .. all laptops (at least most, for the sake of being accurate, if there are some with interchangable/upgradable I stand corrected) .. laptops sure do have GPU's in em, but they are soldered right onto the board, therefore not swappable. Like onboard graphics.

 

[fr]

You could swap ATI Radeon 7500 and NVIDIA GF2Go cards on the old Dell Inspiron 8100 I believe.

 

[figgypower]

All Dell 8x00 series can swap for a different GPU. Search the DellTalk forums for information. Other laptops can do this as well, but the success rate is much lower.

Edit (4/06/03):
I should mention that a lot of people have done it, and I'm about do it for my I8000. There gobs of information here, just do a search. And here, I did a bit of searching for you! Have fun!