I have a Dell Inspiron 600m I bought back in 2003 at an "astronomical" cost of $1400. No idea why I spent so much on it, but I did.
specs:
Pentium M (Banias) @ 1.3GHz
256MB DDR RAM
30GB Fujitsu 2.5" IDE drive
Mobility Radeon 9000 video card w/ 32MB
Windows XP Professional
I upgraded it to 1GB RAM right after I bought it.
The hard drive died a few years ago and I replaced it with a 60GB Hitachi drive.
Recently I opened it up and found the heat sink was clogged and that caused overheating. I cleaned it and realized I could replace the CPU. Did some search and found the most cost effective upgrade on Ebay.
Pentium M (Dothan) @ 2.0GHz for $9.40
It's a drop-in replacement. This processor has 50% higher clock speed, double the L2 cache at 2MB, and lower power requirement.
I dropped the CPU in and installed Windows 7 Basic. I am amazed that it runs just fine. FireFox Portable v.30 runs great. My 20 year old HP Deskjet 712c printer still works on this computer using XP driver. The computer chokes a bit when visiting websites with extensive use of flash, but otherwise it's a great internet browser.
This is one of my hobbies. If I'm absent from WAB for a while, this is probably what I'm doing.
Next, I will attempt to change the downstream O2 sensor on my Subaru.
specs:
Pentium M (Banias) @ 1.3GHz
256MB DDR RAM
30GB Fujitsu 2.5" IDE drive
Mobility Radeon 9000 video card w/ 32MB
Windows XP Professional
I upgraded it to 1GB RAM right after I bought it.
The hard drive died a few years ago and I replaced it with a 60GB Hitachi drive.
Recently I opened it up and found the heat sink was clogged and that caused overheating. I cleaned it and realized I could replace the CPU. Did some search and found the most cost effective upgrade on Ebay.
Pentium M (Dothan) @ 2.0GHz for $9.40
It's a drop-in replacement. This processor has 50% higher clock speed, double the L2 cache at 2MB, and lower power requirement.
I dropped the CPU in and installed Windows 7 Basic. I am amazed that it runs just fine. FireFox Portable v.30 runs great. My 20 year old HP Deskjet 712c printer still works on this computer using XP driver. The computer chokes a bit when visiting websites with extensive use of flash, but otherwise it's a great internet browser.
This is one of my hobbies. If I'm absent from WAB for a while, this is probably what I'm doing.
Next, I will attempt to change the downstream O2 sensor on my Subaru.
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