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    CPU Upgrade Possible?
    « on: September 15, 2012, 12:18:35 PM »
    Dear Forum,

    I am thinking of getting an old Dell Latitude x1 PP05S 12" netbook. I really like the light weight and asthetics, but it uses a Pentium M processor and will be really slow. Is there anything I can do to speed it up? Does anyone make replacement mother boards for modern CPU's; or can I substitute a better CPU?

    Thanks!
    Mike
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    soybean



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    Re: CPU Upgrade Possible?
    « Reply #1 on: September 15, 2012, 01:19:02 PM »
    How much RAM does it have?  Will it support more RAM?  If so, adding RAM would probably improve performance. 

    What OS does it have? 
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    Re: CPU Upgrade Possible?
    « Reply #2 on: September 15, 2012, 01:47:04 PM »
    The Latitude X1 has only 1 RAM slot & will support 1GB.  CPU is not upgradeable.
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    Re: CPU Upgrade Possible?
    « Reply #3 on: September 17, 2012, 12:20:18 PM »
    SSD is the way to go to speed them up as well as extend battery life. I made the upgrade to a OCZ 60GB on my Toshiba netbook for $50 on sale at newegg, which is running Windows XP Home SP3 with Atom dual-core CPU. Downgraded the capacity from 160GB SATA to 60GB SATA, but needed speed vs storage capacity. Fast Boots, Fast to load applications, etc and now I get almost 9 hrs battery life on it vs about 6 hrs before.
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