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What are the best graphics cards for a macbook pro?

Hi,


I am really excited about the new Diablo 3 coming out, and I was wondering if my macbook pro can handle the graphics.


My system is: 2 GHz Interl Core i7, $ GB, AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB, Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3


I was wondering if there are any BETTER graphics cards?


Thank you

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Graphics Card

Posted on May 13, 2012 8:29 AM

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May 13, 2012 11:24 AM in response to ds store

The MacBook Pro dose not have grapic card it only have the GPU chip intergraded direcly on to the Logic Bord same thing for the CPU only way to change the graphic is to ether buy a new mac or buy a new logic bord.

Aplle did this to be able to make the laptop smaller and less in kg adn to save spave in side the laptop.

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May 13, 2012 12:28 PM in response to Avorill

Avorill wrote:


The MacBook Pro dose not have grapic card...


That's for the 13" MacBook Pro and below, they don't have a dedicated graphics card only the default Intel HD 3000 that all Mac's now have.


The original poster also has a AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB, that's a dedicated graphics card in addition to the CPU graphics.

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May 13, 2012 12:56 PM in response to Avorill

I whas one time working on a Apple repear center throw my school for 2 weeks and thy showed me a

Logic Board from a 2011 MBP 15" it hade the INTEL sandy bridge and the sandy bridge have HD 3000 inside the cpu chip and the Logic Board also had a AMD gracpich GPU chip not the hole grapich card seperaded inside the laptop the only card that thelaptop have inside is the logic bouard and the MagSafe card.

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