I think you are speaking something of what I am looking for here!! I have been thinking seriously about upgrading my lap-top, which has survived long... I have a "toy" 486 lap-top (486 DX4 75 Mhz to be precise) And how can I upgrade the processor etc on this please!!
My laptop is a Compaq LTE Elite 4/75 CX any places where I can get info on how to upgrade this lap-top?? from 486 to say a reasonable speed pentium processor?? thanks in advance!! Praveen Kamath On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2001 08:50, Dan Christensen wrote: > > First, the hard drive: the main reason I want to upgrade is to get > > something faster. My HD is a 6G Hitachi that came with my Vivante > > when I bought it almost two years ago. I find it to be very slow. > > Can anyone recommend a faster drive, which is also relatively energy > > efficient? 8 to 9G would be perfect. Can anyone guess how many rpm > > my drive would be? I can't find this in any of the docs. Will any > > 2.5" IDE drive work? > > All the 2.5" IDE drives are supposed to be compatible (which doesn't mean > that they will be). > > If you buy from a large store you should be able to buy on the basis that it > will work in your machine and the store will take the risk that it doesn't > work. > > Laptop drives are slow. They are slow because they are engineered for small > size and resistance to shock rather than performance. They are also slow > because laptops have slow IO buses and can't handle full performance on > modern drives. > > A drive with a higher spin rate will have greater force on it's bearings when > you tilt it. This isn't a big deal for desktop machines which don't move > much. It is a serious issue for laptops which get used on trains! > > If your hard drive is slow then install more RAM for better caching. > > > My CPU is a Celeron 300. I chose this because it was inexpensive and > > doesn't consume much power, but now I'd like a bit more speed, maybe > > 50 to 100% more. Would something like a Celeron 500 be a good option? > > Or a Pentium? Or something from AMD? Will any mobile chip fit into > > my motherboard? How will the energy use of a modern 500MHz cpu > > compare with that of a two year old Celeron 300? > > Replacing a CPU requires totally disassembling the machine. If something > goes wrong you can't get replacement parts (laptops are known for breaking > when you disassemble them). You may end up with a dead machine if you take > it apart. > A Celeron 300 is a good enough machine that it's not something you want to > risk losing, I recommend not trying to upgrade it. Try upgrading it in 2-3 > years time when it's just a toy and you don't care if it dies! > > -- > http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark > http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on > http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
