Re: Upgrade or Buy New?

Rainmaker wrote:
I have a Dell Inspirion 7500 that I bought in 2000;
Win98
Pent II (don't know the speed)
64mg RAM

I haven't used it in four years.

Is this an upgradable machine to today's standards, or should I toss it and buy something new?

Thanks,

Rob



Ok I'll bite on this one.

Assuming this is a serious question and not a windup I would seriously consider buying a new laptop.

Technology has a reputation for moving quickly and this applies especially to Laptops.

Reasons for tossing the old laptop;

* Windows 98 is out of support, therefore no patches, no updates etc
* Hardware is not powerful enough to run any newer OS, Windows 2000 or Windows XP (not so you could use it anyway)
* Laptop is over 4 years old and most likely uses slow expensive memory, probably limited RAM upgrade ability as well (my Dell CPx500 maxes out at 320MB)
* Laptop CPU's generally speaking are not upgradable, a Pentium II would struggle to run any modern OS or software package at a decent speed

Put it this way, around £400 would get you an Intel Celeron powered laptop running at around 1.6GHz with 512MB RAM and a 15" screen. It would come with either Windows XP Home or Professional and have enough power to run basic word processing/spread*** software along with decent browsing speed and email (assuming internet connectivity).

Happy hunting!
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Regards,

JasonB
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