Old laptop, worth upgrade of CPU

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Is it worth bothering to upgrade a Laptop (Dell Insprion 1300) with a 1.6 Celeron to a Pentium 1.7M the 1.7M is for peanuts. I'm just wondering will it make much difference to be worth pulling the laptop open.

Its only used for web browsing and and the odd document.
 
OspreyO said:
Is it worth bothering to upgrade a Laptop (Dell Insprion 1300) with a 1.6 Celeron to a Pentium 1.7M the 1.7M is for peanuts. I'm just wondering will it make much difference to be worth pulling the laptop open.

Its only used for web browsing and and the odd document.
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if thats all its getting used for, pointless upgrading at all bud :)
 
The old celerons were not that much worse than the pentium-Ms for that kind of stuff.

In this case pay more attention to frequency.
 
and mabe a clean install of windows if its all clogged up and mabe close some services and startup programs that arent windows in msconfig
 
It was more a case of something that turned up, for a tenner than going spending money on it. Its pretty optimized otherwise.
 
the fact was that OP said they barely use it, so that difference wouldn't be noticeable to an extent i dont reckon, could always try :)
 
Actually I didn't say I barely use it. Its my sisters latop. She only uses it for email, general browsing and the odd document. It her main computer. But she doesn't do anything intensive with it. I've just noticed these old P4M's are now quite cheaper. Like a tenner or less. I've noticed its quite a simple upgrade with easy access, so I'll just go do it.

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1300/en/sm/index.htm
 
Wait are we talking P4M or PM?

If its a pentium 4M then wow thats slow I think an atom based netbook would be similar speed.

If its a pentium M then its twice as fast as that and worth it somewhat.
 
Its a pentium M he's looking at upgrading to, what will be twice as fast as what? He's considering going from a 1.6 celeron to a pentium m 1.7 pretty much the same bar the pentium has 2mb cache.
 
Cheers. I'm in Ireland, though postage is much the same.

I think it takes all Dothan Pentium M's 400/533. Memory speed and Front side bus are 400 MHz but (I think) it can run the CPU at 533. It has the 915GM chipset, and I remember when I maxed the RAM DDR2 to 2GB, that it was a quirk of this machine that Dell set it up that it would run ram asynchronously at 400 with a 533 processor. I'm not 100% certain though.

It was a basic machine when new. I'm not expecting miracles. I thought it might give a little boost, and perhaps a tiny bit more battery life. People are junking old CPU's even old machines as worthless, old P4's etc. My FIL was using a P4 1.7 desktop, with 1.25MB RAM with USB1 and a CDROM and it was killing me to support it. So slow, especially for anything connected via USB. I picked up a 3GHz, desktop machine with 2GB, and USB 2 and a DVD/CDRW for a very little, and its vast improvement. Now usable for everyday things, like web, skype, the odd doc. Which is all he does.

I'm trying to resist upgrading another old P4 1.7 at the moment. The cost of RAM on these old machines makes it pointless usually.
 
beermonster said:
Its a pentium M he's looking at upgrading to, what will be twice as fast as what? He's considering going from a 1.6 celeron to a pentium m 1.7 pretty much the same bar the pentium has 2mb cache.
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Pentium M at the same clockspeed as pentium4M is twice as fast.

What I am saying was that if it was a P4 then he was not to bother.
 
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