Graphics card in 24-inch iMac is apparently upgradeable

Posted by Dennis Sellers Sep 7, 2006 at 8:45am

It just gets better and better. Christophe Laporte, editor-in-chief of MacGeneration, a French language Mac publication and web site, tells Macsimum News, that they’ve “discovered a little surprise about the new 24-inch iMac”: you can replace the video card thanks to the system’s MXM PCI Express connector. You an read the MacGeneration report here—if you speak French.

Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) is an interconnect standard normally used for graphical user interfaces in laptops using PCI Express. The goal of MXM is to offer a non-proprietary, industry standard socket, so you can upgrade the graphics processor in a laptop, without having to buy a whole new system or relying on proprietary vendor upgrades.

MXM is the result of a joint design effort between Nvidia and the industry’s notebook manufacturers. According to Nvidia it provides a consistent interface for mobile PCI Express graphics in order to achieve: faster time to market for the latest notebook graphics; multiple system configurations and price points from a single system design; compatibility for any graphics solution from any vendor; and configure-to-order upgradeable graphics through notebook manufacturers, or potentially by consumers.

We’ll be investigating this further. But iIt would be a nice idea if Apple use the same connector in the next MacBook Pro, wouldn’t it?

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