video card upgrade question.....

[fatherofmany]

It might be worth asking the Dell support people directly if it's possible to disable the onboard video on that model and use a pcmcia graphics card instead. I'm 99% sure that's not the case though.

Availability of those cards seems limited (the best one I know of isn't made any more and has to be hunted down second hand) and somewhat expensive for what you actually get performance wise.

You're probably looking at a new setup to get 1600 x 1200.