Malfunctioning W530. Directly to the trashcan?

[xelonakias]

I mean on its own though the W530 is still a pretty good laptop, but well even comparing to its competitors at the time, the HP Zbook 15, and the Dell Precision M4700, it fell short on graphics. While the latter two have MxM Type A graphics interface and can be modded (along with modded BIOS) to a GTX 965M if not a 1050 Ti (though you have to spend crazy amounts of money for these modules), that's not possible on the W530 because the GPU is soldered in place.
So well the W530's platform can have lots of potential but that thing's soldered GPU means that graphical demanding tasks can be forgotten of.

Well, you can use an external graphics card, only then the mobility is rather reduced, and then you can really push the machine to its lifespan end like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comme ... aming_rig/

But this is perhaps without any point from a workpoint view.

[kfzhu1229]

Well, you can use an external graphics card, only then the mobility is rather reduced, and then you can really push the machine to its lifespan end like this:

Yeah I know, while with a MxM Type A card it is still very much a laptop and you can use the internal display with zero performance penalty.