People who are planning to upgrade their processor to DUO2 (Merom)

Hello,

As I surf the net, I'm seeing a lot of people who are planning to upgrade their processor when Merom comes out. Out of those people, I can see that they paid more for their extended warranty. I thought it's funny, how they say they are going to upgrade their processor but at same time, they buy extended warranty. Here's the fun part: If you upgrade your processor, your voiding the warranty.

If you planning to upgrade your processor, don't buy extended warranty. Just stick with one year warranty. Dell's not stupid, they know that there are people who ruined their desktops by changing their processors. It will also give them excuse not to fix or replace your laptop if something happens after your install Merom to your computer.(Less hassle and more money for Dell.)

-Cheers

PS. I'm not familiar with other notebook companies, but I think other companies have similar warranty policy as Dell.

 

Thats why you don't buy from Dell, and you buy from someone who will let you upgrade your lappy like Powernotebooks.com. They will even swap the processor for free if you buy from them, and its not insanely marked up like Dell, Hp, etc. would be.

 

another good option is to wait awhile and then after the warranty is up, you upgrade to Merom and more life to the notebook. Why get rid of an already powerful CPU and waste so much on warranty? Unless you want more power than you already need, Merom is better in the future to get more life out of the notebook.

 

Yeah, I'm gonna wait 'till I NEED Merom (64 bit), and by then, it'll be dirt cheap.

 

I am just going to order my new lappy with Merom, since its the same price as Core Duo. I seem to upgrade every couple of years anyway, and moving from a pentium M machine with integrated graphics to a Core 2 Duo machine with a 7600 geforce go card seems to be a worthwhile upgrade.

 

Some laptops you can switch the old (Yonah) CPU to the new one (Merom) and if it has problems down the line, just switch it back and the manufacturer cannot tell the difference. This of course being laptops where the CPU is easily accessible without opening the entire unit and that you keep the old CPU.

 

We also have to check what chipset the mainboard have such as 915 and 945, and so on. If the chipset is 915, it will not be available to update to Core 2 Duo. I also try another way, put a old cpu(Yonah) to a new model of laptop which support Core Duo, but the machine cannot recognize the old cpu as well. i don't know why!!