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Old Toshiba Satellite Upgrade

Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by JuniorD, Feb 7, 2009.

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Well, I am planning on upgrading my laptop's memory and video + graphic cards because it's hardware is falling behind the pack. Is it possible to upgrade my Toshiba Satellite M55-S3293? Had it for about 6 years now and have decided to speed it up a bit. Anything bigger and better than the initial hardware besides a new hardrive would be nice. Thanks.

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You won't be able to upgrade the graphics card, and the laptop uses rather expensive DDR RAM that is not compatible with DDR2. I was just looking, but I think you have the Pentium M processor right? You should be able to get 2GB of DDR RAM into that system, which might help a bit.

Other than that, I'd consider upgrading to a faster IDE hard drive (not exactly worth it though).

Considering how expensive all that stuff is, you might want to also check out some of the newer notebooks out. Even the cheapest stuff should be quite powerful compared to the notebook, so check your options.

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trying to stick to it for a while. You have a few links for the suggested upgrades?

JuniorD, Feb 8, 2009

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