How to get the right graphics card on my macbook in order to play team fortress 2??!!

does anybody know how to get a NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 graphics card on a macbook, (mac OS X, version 10.5.8 with a 2.4 GHz intel core 2 duo, chipset model - GMA: X3100??? I desperately need to play team fortress 2 on my macbook!!

alfie123lewis wrote:
does anybody know how to get a NVIDIA GeForce 8 or higher, ATI X1600 or higher, or Intel HD 3000 graphics card on a macbook, (mac OS X, version 10.5.8 with a 2.4 GHz intel core 2 duo, chipset model - GMA: X3100??? I desperately need to play team fortress 2 on my macbook!!
Buy a new one?
Seriously, you can't upgrade a video card on a laptop, unless your a electronics whiz or something.
The Intel HD 3000 is a integrated graphics, meaning the CPU does the graphics and isn't all that great because GPU's are more powerful than CPU's apparently.
http://www.cbscores.com/index.php?sort=ogl&order=desc
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
The most powerful vidoe cards are in desktop machines which you can exchange, and for less money Windows tower is a better 3D gaming platform as it comes with Windows when you buy the comptuer (a $300 savings) most games are on Windows because of the less expensive and open hardware.
However!  If your into 3D gaming and need a Mac laptop, then you'll need a
2.2 Ghz 15" MacBook Pro with 1GB Radeon 6750M video card or
2.2 Ghz 17" Macbook Pro with 1GB Radeon 6750M video card.
(2.3Ghz is fine too, not all that much faster really)
This Radeon 6750M is THREE times faster than the pitiful Intel HD 3000. 
The object being is you buy as much video card performance up front as you can, and play all the latest games at over 50 fps on max settings!
Then over time as new games come out and demand more hardware, you trim down the graphics in the game itself to keep the frame rate up.
Eventually though, you'll have to buy a new MacBook Pro, because you can't (reasonably) change the video card in laptops like you can with a desktop like a Windows PC tower or a MacPro.
The iMac you can't do squat with neither. Which is a shame actually.

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