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    Toshiba Sattilite

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dedhed, Jan 30, 2007.

  1. dedhed

    dedhed Newbie

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    Thinking about upgrading my wife's Sattilite 2805-S201
    new battery $113.00
    120.0 GB ATA/100 5400 RPM 9.5mm 12.5M S 8MB Cache $105.00
    USB Hard Drive Data Transfer Upgrade Kit $45.00
    Intel Mobile processor Celeron 2.2ghz SL6RW used/tested $45.00
    I have already added 256k ram and upgraded to XP
    Is it worth spending 300 + on this unit?
     
    dedhed, Jan 30, 2007
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  2. jetstar

    jetstar Notebook Deity

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    What will the notebook be used for? For basic tasks such as surfing the Internet or Word processing, it will suffice. Otherwise, get a new notebook.
     
    jetstar, Jan 30, 2007
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  3. NetBrakr

    NetBrakr Notebook Deity

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    Hello and welcome.

    It is NOT worth it because the notebook is completely outdated. And most of these compoents will not work, especially the CPU.

    JC
     
    NetBrakr, Jan 30, 2007
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  4. dedhed

    dedhed Newbie

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  5. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    I wouldn't say that it's not worth it. If the laptop is not meeting your computing needs at the moment, and still wouldn't meet those needs if you upgraded it, then it would be a good time to look at a new laptop.

    Too many people just throw out old computers, thinking them to be "outdated". It seems that no one considers how the heavy metals and other caustic wastes in a laptop/desktop are disposed of properly.

    My parents still use a 12-year-old Pentium II desktop clocked at 250MHz. It has 384MB of RAM, a 10GB HDD, and a Radeon 9000 graphics card. They use Matlab, Quicken, MS Office, IE/Netscape, and other day-to-day applications, where others say they need a dual-core machine with a top-of-the-line graphics solution.

    Sorry for ranting :D your laptop is good.
     
    Bog, Jan 30, 2007
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  6. moon angel

    moon angel Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    The best and most effectgive upgrade would be the ram. I'd say stick the most ram you can. You should be able to find out what ram and how much your laptop can take from google.

    The next most important thing is the hard drive. I'm guessing your laptop came with a 4200rpm drive. a 7200rpm drive would really speed things up!

    To speed up usb transfer rates a usb2 pcmcia card (assuming you have pcmcia) is a great way of upgrading to USB 2 from 1.0 or 1.1. I did this myself on my previous laptop which only had usb 1.1 as standard.

    The cpu is doable but complicated, but if you can get a much better one for $45 i'd say go for it. Arctic Silver 5 thermal compund will help your cooling system to cope with the increased performance.

    Honestly, you can buy a brand new and superior laptop for maybe $600? I'd say if you're spending maybe $200 or so on upgrades it'd be worth keeping your new machine. You could also put your old laptop drive in an external case and use it for backup or extra storage.

    If you have any other questions on upgrading your laptop please feel free to post them.
     
    moon angel, Jan 30, 2007
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  7. GRZ530

    GRZ530 Notebook Consultant

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    lol,you make him confused

    even You upgrade higher clock speed of cpu,256+ is slower by M$ Windows :eek: ,pay more for Ram and hdd which have amount and higher cache respectively
     
    GRZ530, Jan 30, 2007
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