sony sz processor

I was wondering the processor for this laptop. does anyone know where is the processor located in the laptop? is it easy to upgrade?

 

You'd have to take the entire notebook apart, void the warranty, etc...just to get to it (EDIT: At least that is how every other notebook I've seen works). And the performance benefits would be marginal and too expensive to be worth it.

If you are lacking in performance, I'd vote for upgrading the RAM and then the hard drive.

 

hard drive would be more to easy to upgrade?

 

MxMoney. what kind of processor is support for this laptop? what processor did you upgrade to?

 

Many Core Duo and Core 2 Duo (excluding Santa Rosa processors)

 

in newegg website, i found 2 different kind of socket M and P. which kind is the right one for it

 

What is the cpu you're trying to upgrade from. As night2004 said, upgrading the CPU would only yield minimal benefits.

 

my current cpu is t2400. i want a fast cpu

 

I never say use the search tool BUT.......this topic has been discussed so often on this website. My SZ260p shipped with a T2400 and I upgraded to the T7600 2.33 and it took about 10 minutes to unscrew the plate on the bottom of the laptop and yes, I am sure. The hard drive is not difficult either but the CPU and RAM are easiest.

Try looking here.....

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=109585

http://home.comcast.net/~nw_systems/vgnSZ.pdf

 

my last question is what kind of socket use in this notebook. socket M or P?

thank you for the useful information

 

Yours would use Socket M.

Socket P is for Santa Rosa.

 

MxMoney what was the performance increase like?

I was thinking at one point upgrading my Core Duo T2600 (2.13ghz) to Core Duo 2 T7600 (2.33ghz)

Decided aginst it after looking at benchmarks showing only a 10-15% increase in speed and 0-2% for 3d performance. Add that the cost would be AU$900 for the cpu as well.

 

when you change the hard drive, you need to remove the keyboard. is there anything that i need to be careful. what is the hard drive interface for this laptop?
thank you

 

I upgraded my sz150P/C to an intel Core 2 duo 2.0gh/z, a seagate 7200.2 160gb hard drive and 2 gb of ram. The biggest performance gain i saw was from the hard drive upgrade. the fujitsu runs at a 1.5G/s rate, where as the new drive runs at double that--3G/s. Faster bootups and faster wakeups, plus a faster rpms for the drive. This machine is so simple to work on and upgrade. and for those with vista problems, i did order the vista companion cd from sony. Totally worth 10 bucks.

 

On laptoplogic.com, there is a guide to upgrading the hard drive. I got my seagate off of buy.com since it was sold out everywhere else.

 

if i want to upgrade to vista, i don't need to get vista business right

 

You can, but I just did an upgrade install of ultimate using the Vista Upgrade Companion CD, and it went very smoothly. Plus, with ultimate, you can use your fingerprint scanner and tpm with the bitlock feature since the upgraded OS doesn't support the whole "My Safe" thing.

 

did you just upgrade and use the companion cd or you do clean installation and companion cd?

 

the first couple time I installed Vista, only on the business edition was upgrade an option. But after the hard drive swap, I started from scratch with the recovery discs, then jumped into the vista ultimate upgrade using the companion cd. Short answer is I did the upgrade to ensure greater compatibility since I had such little luck doing the clean install.