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    Best Upgradable notebook/notebooks

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Granddaddy1, Oct 8, 2005.

  1. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guy's,Which notebook or notebooks?
    Do you feel is the best up gradable.
    From the economical aspect!
    Upgrades for :RAM
    Hard Drive
    Graphics Card
    Even the Processors

    Please,when posting your anwer.Post the brand/name/model of the notebook!
     
    Granddaddy1, Oct 8, 2005
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  2. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    RAM/HD
    CPU

    GPU when its needed of course, but won't be for a while..

    RAM/HD has the best price to performance ratio!
     
    coriolis, Oct 8, 2005
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  3. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    I guess that you're refering to the ASUS Z70va?
     
    Granddaddy1, Oct 8, 2005
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  4. coriolis

    coriolis Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Nope for all laptops.

    RAM is very useful, if you upgrade it, it improves your speed, battery life and performance

    HD improves your loading times and overall performance as well.

    The CPU is more costly and improves the performance as well.

    The GPU will only improve if you game or do graphic intense things and overall costly and not widely avaliable
     
    coriolis, Oct 8, 2005
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  5. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    Oh,now I see.What you're telling me.Well,I'll definately be upgrading the Ram & HD
     
    Granddaddy1, Oct 8, 2005
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  6. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    A 5400RPM drive will give a big performance boost. A 7200RPM is eveb better if you can afford it cause they are expensive at the moment. The more memory the better.
     
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  7. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    Well,the Inspiron6000.That I'am looking at has a 40GB HD
    What do I need to upgrade too? 60GB $59.00
    or
    80GB $79.00
    The 100GB is insanely priced at DEll $179.00
     
    Granddaddy1, Oct 8, 2005
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  8. ru1thirst

    ru1thirst Notebook Consultant

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    Well the size of the HD is up to you. How much room do you need? What are you going to be using the machine for? You need to probably be more concerned about the HD speed. See the above post by zazonz. Not sure what speed the Dell that you are interested in has. If its 4200rpm then defenitly upgrade to a 5400rpm speed drive. Now the 5400rpm drives come in all size I'm sure. You would probably have a choice of 60gb - 80gb - 100gb but again the real concern is the rpm speed. The faster the better. Now I just ordered a Asus z70va and went with a kind of a small drive at least to me. But, I ordered the Hitachi Travelstar 60gb (size) with the 7200rpm (speed).
     
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  9. Granddaddy1

    Granddaddy1 Notebook Consultant

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    Dell does have the sppeeds listed.Just found the sizes
     
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  10. ZaZ

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    Dells base drives are 5400RPM. 5400RPM drives are a better value.
     
    ZaZ, Oct 9, 2005
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  11. lewdvig

    lewdvig Notebook Virtuoso

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    I just submitted a review for the Gateway 8510GZ. It offers easy access to the ram, HDD, miniPCI and most notably has a socketed CPU (upgradable) and a MXM/Axiom slot (upgradable video).

    It only costs $1599 CDN - an awesome deal if you ask me.
     
    lewdvig, Oct 10, 2005
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  12. nogocchumi

    nogocchumi Notebook Geek

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    RAM, DEFINITELY! I had 512mbx1 memory on my laptop, and I add another dimm for dual channel and I happy with my laptop every since(well.. most of the time).. I saw the memory usage using memturbo, and everytime I start my computer it always used up about 400mb! just for start up!! That explains why my computer so stupid sometimes.. it needs more brain!! :)
     
    nogocchumi, Oct 12, 2005
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  13. SMP_Homer

    SMP_Homer Notebook Geek

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    if you're using 400 megs just at startup, you might have other issues that need addressing...
    take a look at your processes and also check to see what is set to launch automatically with Windows and when you sign on...
     
    SMP_Homer, Oct 13, 2005
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