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    Question considering new Probooks

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vēer, Jun 28, 2010.

  1. vēer

    vēer Notebook Deity

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    Hi everyone!
    Looking into buying myself laptop, found good deal for Probook 4520s, I5-430m, BT, 4GB DDR3, 320Gb spindle etc, tho without OS. Everything around the same price one would pay when buying from HP at the moment (749 USD) + I get 2 years warranty since i live in Europe.

    (Sidenote - laptops are damn expensive over here compared to USA no matter in which European country you live so this deal is very good, was looking@X/T series Thinkpads but strong US currency ATM+double prices per unit in Latvia makes it financial nonsense to buy myself TP this time)

    But i also found one Probook 4520s going for around 550 bucks, looks like only difference is 2GB of RAM and Celeron P4500 instead of Core I5.

    So my question is - can the cpu be replaced on my own later? Or is it soldered to the motherboard? Or maybe even if it is possible to upgrade on my own there is too much to take apart and thus ill void my warranty or i can run into self-cause hardware issues during dissembly/reassembly?

    Muchos appreciated guys :)
     
    vēer, Jun 28, 2010
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    KLF NBR Super Modernator Super Moderator

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    That P4500 is so new that HP service manual does not contain it. Looking at the manual, there is different motherboards separated mainly between the GPU options and WWAN capability.

    Assuming that P4500 is socket-compatible with i5, yes you can upgrade later.
    Most probably it will void your warranty (if you do sloppy work and get caught).
    Apparently (again, looking at the service manual) CPU is under the keyboard pretty easy to access.

    Service manuals for most HP products are at the support pages.
     
    KLF, Jun 29, 2010
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  3. vēer

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    Ok, thanks, will look into them if i decide to buy it :)
     
    vēer, Jun 29, 2010
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