Improving a Laptops Innards

[mhow]

Have a Toshiba Satellite Pro L300-1FK laptop,short mdl.no.PSLB9E and have changed the original 2gb memory to 4gb.What I would like to know is there anything else I could change to improve performance.

[BillyGoat]

It's possible to change the CPU in most laptops, providing:

a) the BIOS supports the new CPU (may require an update for it to POST)

With some other laptops, its possible to change the VGA card if it's MXM or similar.

Looking at that model, it says: Intel® Celeron® Processor 585

I see in the L300 range there are 5 models listed. They all appear to share the same chassis, which usually includes motherboard too.

http://bit.ly/wgw1Y6

To be fair, I don't think it's going to do you a massive favour upgrading to one of T3XX CPUs. I'd be saving for a new machine myself....

BG

[ultimatehandyman]

I used to have a Toshiba satellite and it was pants

Sometimes you are better off selling the old one on ebay and buying a new one

[wine~o]

Toshiba satellite user says...(L500 )...more than adequate for my needs...

[ultimatehandyman]

Mine was rubbish, can't remember the model number but only had it a few months before the mainboard went and had to be replaced. I got an Acer after that and it was a hundred times better

[Megaross]

I've had 2 acers and had nothing but problems with both of them.
First one didn't last a year, second one (current one) would have been in the bin long ago if I weren't technically minded enough to keep mending it, spent upwards of £200 on spares in 16 months ownership.
Got a toshiba in the bottom of the wardrobe my sister gave me after it broke, still not managed to mend it but the quality in general seems much sturdier, plus it made it 4 years, not bad.

You can replace the processor, hard drive and sometimes the graphics cards, but generally speaking it isn't worth it on a laptop in my opinions, you're better off replacing the entire unit.

[chuggly]

I also had an Acer Aspire 9301AWSMI

It was great for about 2 years then died.

Acer customer support is crap.

Got an HP, had it 2 years & still great.

Use Dell at work, scrapped loads of them, mouse goes up to one corner & stays there. Not worth repairing.

Tim

[wine~o]

Acer customer support is crap.

They're not That good....

[chuggly]

Acer customer support is crap.

They're not That good....

No they are much much worse

[christian1985]

Just save up for something a bit more newer, for the meantime, delete all the things u dont want anymore, uninstall all the programs you never use or need, then run a disk cleanup, and registry clean up and system clean up, i use a program called "COMODO" which is free. then run a disk defragmenter. that should speed it up abit for the time being and make it run a little smoother.

hope this helps :)

[Megaross]

Use Dell at work, scrapped loads of them, mouse goes up to one corner & stays there. Not worth repairing.

I'll agree on dells being crap. Panasonic or IBM in the workplace if they're getting some heavy use, even business grade dell is pretty shoddy.

But trackpad is an easy fix and would probably only be £20-30 for the part and half hour with a screwdriver so I'd have mended something like that.