January 29, 200719 yr I could be getting a older Dell Laptop in the next few weeks..for cheap. Downside is, that it is a celeron(not that big of a deal) 256k of memory, and a 20gb hard drive. Would it be worth it to upgrade it? And not cost me an arm and a leg? I plan use it for school-related stuff, so it doesn't have to be powerful....
January 29, 200719 yr Upgrading memory and hard drives on Dells is usually a snap. Go to www.crucial.com - they have a memory selector that allows you to specify your system and tell you the max amount of memory that they can put in it. As for the hard drive, it's usually a standard 2.5" notebook drive that's screwed into a Dell-specific caddy. Without knowing the specifics of what you want to upgrade to, I'd say it'll cost about $100-200 total.
January 29, 200719 yr Author Hmmm... Quite cool. I'd settle for 512k and a 60-80GB drive...nothing too crazy...unless I get a good deal...
January 29, 200719 yr I'd settle for 512k and a 60-80GB drive...nothing too crazy...unless I get a good deal...I wonder what would be faster... PC XT with 640K or this?
January 29, 200719 yr That Celeron will be ass... But then again, with plenty of memory, you should be good.
January 29, 200719 yr for 512mb ram and a 60gb hdd i'd be surprised if you had to spend more than $130.... what speed is the celeron?....(wondering if it's a P3 or a P4 derivative)
January 29, 200719 yr Try and go for a gig of ram... it'll really open up things and let you run things more smoothly. I find 512mb too little when running win2000 or xp.
January 30, 200719 yr Author for 512mb ram and a 60gb hdd i'd be surprised if you had to spend more than $130.... what speed is the celeron?....(wondering if it's a P3 or a P4 derivative) I'll have to find that out.... I know it's a few years old...
January 30, 200719 yr Author That Celeron will be ass... But then again, with plenty of memory, you should be good. Yeah, I know, my old gateway had a celeron..... I'll not expecting this guy to do too much...
January 30, 200719 yr Author Try and go for a gig of ram... it'll really open up things and let you run things more smoothly. I find 512mb too little when running win2000 or xp. I know it has XP on it now..I need to find out how much a gig would be...
January 31, 200719 yr looking through some ads for about 700 you can get a nice computer with vista Celeron M 100gb and DVD burners and stuff. look around at new before you go with old. but if not go for it use Newegg.com for the upgrades though.
January 31, 200719 yr Author looking through some ads for about 700 you can get a nice computer with vista Celeron M 100gb and DVD burners and stuff. look around at new before you go with old. but if not go for it use Newegg.com for the upgrades though. Yeah, I know I could still go new..but I can't by new until late this year... The Dell is just temp...but I would like to make it a bit faster. New Egg? I've heard of that somewhere...
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