im looking to buy a lap top but i dont want to get it paid off then have to buy anotherone im just looking for, if there is one, a rather upgradeable laptop. any sugestions?
My suggestion is dont buy a laptop. Hard drives are easy to upgrade, a screw here and there - pull the caddy out- swap drive and put back together. Memory is easy to upgrade, a screw of panel - add memory and put back together. That IS where it ends - you will not be able to replace the motherboard or the processor. There are a few VERY expensive laptops out there that have upgradeable, modular graphics cards - however I dont belive any company sells any replacements at this time. I have a laptop, for the above reasons I purchased a cheap one. Rather you spend $1000 or $3000 you wont gain any upgradability (except maybe the graphics card). I use a Toshiba Satellite with 2.0 GHz processor, 256 MB ram, 30 GB hard drive and DVD/CD burner combo that I picked up new for about $800 about 8 months ago.
my suggestion is to buy an alienware laptop. They use desktop cpu's and they make them with upgradeable video cards, you have to buy the video cards from them but hey its a start in the right direction. I am selling my laptop that i bought a little over a year ago for gaming cus laptops are always a generation or 2 behind desktops when it comes to video cards. in my opinion gaming notebooks are just too expensive, you can build at least 3 good gaming desktops for the price of a good gaming laptop.
this isn't for gaming..i already have a nice rig for that but i jsut want a lap top for trips and work and such
way i see it, if what you're doing with it doesnt change, than the hardware you need to do that doesnt change. you can probably track down a current notebook that does what you need it to do, then you can use that till it falls apart on you. and once that happens, pick up another one, and use that till it dies, so on and so forth.
My mates Acer laptop (bottom of the range, was an insurance replacement for a 266MHz thing) has a 2400+M (nah it's a crap stepping, I checked ) and a crappy shared graphics card, that can be upgraded to a mobile 9700, along with a couple of DIMM slots, so he can go from 256MB to a gig of RAM too...pretty good, considering
if its not for gaming then i say go get the best one you can afford or want and don't worry bout upgrading it down the line. Because even my buddie's p2 450 laptop w/dvd still does all the stuff he wants it to. we watch movies on the road and he builds websites on it.
You have to be joking... there's no way you could cool a desktop CPU in a laptop. However you may wanna see if tehre are any companies that do a step-up program type of thing. I'd upgrade the CPU in my gateway laptop (celeron eww!) but as celeron's use a high voltage and I'd replace it with a pentium M (~1v), it would mean certain death even if it wasn't soldered in.
Ahhh - hes not joking. My Toshiba Satellite has a desktop 2.4 P4 in it. Its actually (in my opionion) a BAD thing. Consumes more power than a mobile processor does. Many laptops have desktop processors in them - its fairly common. I scoped out the Alienware website and not only do they use desktop processors but if you want to spend $3648 US you can get one with: Intel® Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition Processor with Hyper-Threading Technology – (3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2.5MB L3 Cache)
right many companies use desktop cpu's in thier laptops becase desktop p4s cost about half as much as a mobile p4, it can be a bad thing for power consumption. My dell latitude sucks for battery life and its got a 2.2GHz mobile p4 in it, but i bought it for gaming on the road not battery life. Oh and Firehed your celery is probably not soldered in, you might want to check it out. granted the only thing you could put in there is a mobile p3, but its still better performance. a lot of the later celerons and p3's use a ziff socket just like desktops do. My laptop is socket 478. I have an extra mobile 2.2 and latitude mobo if anyones interested, works perfectly dell was dumb and sent them to me when the replaced the bottom plastic because of a bad battery clip.
