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    Question Dell Inspiron 1000

    My wife suffers from Lupus and has to spend a lot of time in bed. I just bought her a Dell Inspiron 1000 with a Celeron 2.2ghz, 256 ram and 30 gb hard drive and a DVD/CD-RW. She has a Desktop pc with a P4 3ghz HT, 8oo fsb that is great for the heavier apps. The reason I went cheap on the laptop is she only uses it for e-mail and playing freecell and light internet surfing. But down the road things might change with her loss of mobility.

    My question is, by the way I can't seem to understand the Dell tech support people, is the laptop has a fsb of 400. Can this be upgraded to say a P4 3ghz? Also the unit will only handle 512mb ram and I believe the 1st 256mb is under the keyboard and the other slot is on the bottom access port.
    I know the ram would be a definite improvement, but would it be worth upgrading the processor, and again is a P4 possible? The manual it came with isn't very clear on these issues. Also I believe the ram is PC2700? Is that correct?

    I know very little about laptops so excuse my ignorance.

    Also would adding ram and a possible cpu void my warranty?

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    The ram would definately be a possibility and definately be worth the money, 512 creams any old 256 ram. The processor I doubt very much, but then again I dont know much about Laptops.

    I think the ram is PC2100, see here http://reviews.cnet.com/Dell_Inspiro...3.html?tag=tab

    Although I got higher speed ram even when the specs said differently. Just cause it has an FSB of 400 doesnt mean it can use any processor.

    Good info tool: http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

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    Memory u/g wouldn't void the warranty, but the processor might.....but I'm not 100% on that.
    Failure is not an option -- its a "feature" of Windows.

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    Downloading the service manual from a p2p application may answer the question for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archer
    Downloading the service manual from a p2p application may answer the question for you.
    from a p2p app?

    http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...0/en/index.htm

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