[ltp] Upgrade

Christopher Sawtell linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:36:18 +1200


On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:56, Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > The hard drive is fine. If it will take 320 megs then I could put a few
> > megs more ram in, but it's the cpu that I need to upgrade, just need to
> > know if that's possible or if I need to upgrade the whole machine.
>
> You can't upgrade the CPU. It's soldered to the main board.
>
> (I had a 570 once, and for most tasks it's 366 MHz PII was sufficient. I
> wonder if it's really a stronger CPU what you are looking for.)
I used a 400MHz P/II for many years.
Putting an extra 256 Mbytes memory gave it a real boost. After doing that i=
t=20
was really quite useable. Also a tuned o/s makes a big difference.

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