Re: Laptop cpu upgrade
- From: mike <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 04:31:01 GMT
Rank wrote:
Just a general question about laptop cpu's. I'm looking into buying a laptop soon. However, I'm considering chosing a cheaper model that has a less powerfull cpu and less ram and later on, if my needs be more demanding, have the possibility to upgrade to more ram and a more powerful cpu. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a way to determine what maximum cpu various laptops can accept. Is there a way to find out? For example, if I buy a laptop with a core duo T2080, how could I know if a C2D T7200 would work? any way to find out before buying if a laptop would take 667 fsb vs 533.This question pops up all the time. The answer is determined by the
thanks all
answer to a few HONEST answers to some simple questions:
Do you have a defined computing need? Or do you just want a new toy?
For many of us, the buck stops here...we want a new toy...where's my credit card?
IF you want a new toy, take your credit card and go buy something shiny.
If you have a computing need, define it.
Is there a hard performance limit? For example, you're not gonna play DVD's on a 200MHz cpu. That's a hard performance requirement you must
exceed. If you wanna run Vista...there are some hard hardware requirements. If you gotta read blue-ray disks, there ain't no
gettin' around a blue-ray drive.
Most requirements are soft. Ok, I can compress MP3's 20% faster if I double my cpu clock rate (leave everything else the same). So what?
How much money am I willing to pay for that? I can brag to my buddies.
How much are you willing to pay for that?
What about the future? It'll probably be another five years before
microsoft decides to turn your world upside down and obsolete your
hardware. An upgrade probably won't fix that anyway.
And what about those hardware upgrades? The vendor has moved on three
generations. They're not interested in speeding up your old machine.
They want to sell you a new one. Ditto for software.
If you initially buy an upgrade from the typically puny ram you get with
it outa the box, there's not much else to be done cost effectively.
I've been known to upgrade a processor module from 433 to 650 MHz, but
ONLY because someone gave me a dead donor machine. In a blind test
on typical uses, you'd be hard pressed to tell that the speed increased.
So, buy the machine that does what you need today and/or can clearly indentify in the near future.
NEVER, EVER expect that a useful laptop hardware upgrade will be cost effective...exctpt for ram...maybe...
But the best deals are on used obsolete machines. If you can stay
3 years behind the peak, you can buy $20 machines instead of $2000
machines. Let someone else take the depreciation. Most of us have
WAY more laptop than we really need.
When you get right down to it, we'd probably prefer longer battery
life or more reliability over blazing speed. My laptop already
spits fire out the fan exit. Can't imagine putting a faster processor in it.
Having said all that...most of us are gonna go buy the shiny one. ;-)
That's how we keep the economy (of China) running.
mike
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