Anyway to upgrade laptop?

I'm using a Powermac G4 1.5Ghz 12" and the GPU and CPU speeds are just way too slow and I'm getting a new laptop in about a year so if I can upgrade this should I or should I just buy a cheap used one?

Need some opinions!

 

AFAIK for Apple's notebooks they BGA soldered all CPU's. Plus PowerPC hasn't been supported for a long time, and no modern OS X past Tiger will run smooth on anything less than a G5.

I would save up for a new Macbook Pro, as my workplace sells the brand new 13" with Sandy Bridge i5 for 999, 200 less than the Apple store. Used Mac's usually aren't worth it.

 

Thanks for your reply,
I am planning on getting a new MBP sometime in the summer but I need a new laptop until than since this computer is head achingly slow. Know of any used laptops worth a couple hundred bucks?

 

You can probably check our Marketplace and see if any of our members are selling some lower cost laptops. Also might want to check outlet stores (Dell, HP, Apple, and others have them) where you might be able to get one cheaper.

Any particular reason you prefer Apple? Just curious to know since some Windows machines can be had for less than $1000.

 

I personally prefer the operating system although I've been using Windows for years and I would certainly buy a PC (as I'm no Apple fanboy ) but since my uses would be 3D graphic kinds of things I would love to get the new MBP. Although I would get a cheap PC to tide me over until then.

 

no thats not true, not ALL are BGA soldered just some.

 

Would there be anyway to tell without taking it apart?

 

Not sure about PowerPC, but I've ordered 50+ motherboards from Apple and every single one of them (Intel, models ranging from Macbook to MBP 13,15,17, MBA 2006-2011) are ALL BGA soldered. Each Apple motherboard has a clock speed written in the part number description which means they are all BGA soldered.

Point in case OP, you need a platform upgrade, upgrading a CPU to a slightly faster clock speed (if even possible) won't solve your issue that PowerPC has been pretty much unsupported really since 2006.

 

i just commented in a thread here about some mac book with core 2 and i could have sworn it was socket P.

yes there is a way to tell with out taking it apart look for a "tear down" or "how to dissemble xxx" guide with pictures.

 

Mac uses the same CPU's but they are BGA CPU's, not PGA.

Apple does not release service manuals to the public, only available through GSX2 (Global Service eXchange), Apple's ASP login.

 

There were iMacs that used 'Exxxx' Socket P Core 2 Duos which were not soldered and could be used in regular notebooks, albeit they were 45W TDP chips that were super leaky. I had one in my P-7811FX. As for Macbooks, I haven't come across one that wasn't soldered.

@ OP, this is your situation:

 

well then, i guess that sums that up

 

You must have gotten an older stepping. They came out before other 45nm socket P chips did but there are also lots of the last stepping.