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December 23rd, 2004, 02:32 AM
#1
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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?
"Everybody needs a little help sometimes"
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December 23rd, 2004, 02:51 AM
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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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December 23rd, 2004, 09:09 AM
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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.
Mama never told me geekhood was gonna be like this....
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December 23rd, 2004, 10:50 AM
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Downloading the service manual from a p2p application may answer the question for you.
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December 23rd, 2004, 02:35 PM
#5
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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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