On 06/09/2011 12:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I've had a trusty T60 for several years, am considering moving on, but all the
Lenovo machines are widescreen these days, and I really like the 1400 x 1050
layout on this machine. So I'm looking into upgrading the machine internally.
It's a 200776U with a Centrino Duo, running XP, 2Gig, and 350G disk. I know I
can usefully add another gig of memory, but is there any plausible way to put a
faster processor in it? Knowing the complexity of such things, I suspect not,
but thought I'd check.
Any suggestions?
If you have a v3 system board, you can put a Core 2 Duo (Merom) in
there, up to 2.33GHz.
You're right about being able to use 3GB of RAM, but if you have
identical sticks (or 4GB), the RAM runs in spiffy mode giving you about
10 - 12% more RAM bandwidth. Worth the expense? That's for you to say.
An SSD will also speed it up quite a lot.
Windows 7 runs very well on a T60, as does Linux.
Chris (who handed his T60 down to his wife)
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