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Author My crap laptop - advice needed
Sam
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13th Nov 05 at 09:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well fairly recently I sold my decent laptop and bought my mate's dinosaur of a laptop, I want to upgrade it because it's about as fast as a 1.0 Corsa...

It's an IBM Thinkpad i series Type 1171-NM1.

It's current spec:

Intel Celeron 700
128Mb RAM
10GB hard drive
4Mb video RAM
24x CD/RW drive
Windows XP Professional SP2 (originally had Windows ME but it got FUBAR'd)

I understand that the RAM can only be upgraded to a maximum of 192Mb, but what about the HDD, how can I tell if there is an upper size limit for this? I was looking at getting a faster spinning 40Gb HDD.

Also, is there any way I can get around the crap 4Mb video memory at all?

Thanks.
MarkW
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13th Nov 05 at 11:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
no way you crap video m8 - its a laptop lol

memory generally on ibm's if you can find / afford two sticks of 256mb then it will take 512 - HDD max it will take it 40gb

i used to engineer shitty ibm laptops allday - hope it helps
Sam
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13th Nov 05 at 11:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It looks like there is only one slot for memory stick?
MarkW
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13th Nov 05 at 14:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
there should be two, have you looked underneath it? if not then it'll defo take a single stick of 256
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13th Nov 05 at 16:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If I get a chance I'll remove the memory stick and see if there's another one underneath it or something.
Sam
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Also, can I upgrade the CD/RW drive to a DVD/RW combo drive, or are laptop drives not standard across the board like normal PC ones for example?
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you can get dvdrw but depends on model, have to do bit of searching ebay etc i got a spare 40gb if interested

 
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