laptops are expensive to upgrade, and you might as well go for a card with bigger juice cuz it will cost alot to upgrade after the 9800. my suggestion would be to go to at least a geforce 6600, or on the ati side at least an x700. the x700 might only be pci-e but the x800 series comes in agp. i dont know how credible this info is cuz i havent looked at laptops in a while.