Recent content by willfish19

it is an HP zv6000 laptop. it has a 15.4 in display. 2.4GHz cpu, 1 gb of ram, 80 gb HDD and it has windows XP. have had it for about 2.5 years and other than a problem with the wiring harness for the display, has been a great laptop.

i have a copy of linux called umbutu or something on a cd and was thinking about getting an old laptop and putting it on to try it out. what is linux like compared to XP. also i have been cruzing the web doing some research on cpu swaps on laptops and it seem to be about 50/50 saying that you...

whats not going to work. the cpu swap. if it wont work please give a solid reason it wont work instead of saying it wont work

well the computers that i have seen on vista all seem to be slower than my computer with comparable specs. and i will be upgrading to vista ULTIMATE which will be a power hungry b!@#h from what i have read. the reason i will be upgrading to it is because my college offers it as a free download...

what makes it so difficult or impossible to upgrade the processor on a laptop. i mean the processor is under the key board. it is relatively easy to get to and from the the way thing look in the manual it is relatively easy to take out. is it something related to the software side of the upgrade...

how can you tell if a program will use both cores or will only use 1. also should i also really look into getting the biggest cache size that i can as well.

also when i look at the speed is it multiplied by 2 (2 GHz x 2 = 4GHz) or is each core half of the advertised speed (2GHz = 2 x 1 GHz)

i have a laptop with a AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ running at 2.4 GHz with 512 kb of cache and was thinking of upgrading it to a dual core processor. i was just wondering what speed of dual core processor would be comparable to my current processor so that i can be sure that i am going up and...

well this processor is in an HP zv6000 laptop. i was wondering if i could just upgrade the motherboard then.

i have read the the am2 socket has replaced my HP's 939 pin motherboard. and i was wondering will a socket am2 processor work in a its 939 pin motherboard. i looked on newegg and it seems like they really dont have any 939 dual core processors with the specks im looking for. it seems like...

i looked on that on that newegg website and was wondering which one of those processor would be good. i do like the price of the 4200+ processor though. a friend was telling me to look at the cache when looking for a processor because it will affect the the speed of the processor. also do...

hello. i have a few questions. i have an HP zv 6000 laptop that is about 2 years old and was thinking about just upgrading the hardware instead of buying a new computer. my current set up is a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ running at 2.4 ghz (and a 512 KB cache speed), i have 1 gb of ram...