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I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 that I run XP on. I'm looking to either max everything out on it. In this respect I think I can only swap the IDE drive for a new one & get a faster RW DVD drive.
Specs:
Intel Pentium M 740, 1.73GHz (Socket 479 mPGA) 90nm 😱
PATA/IDE 60Gb HDD
1Gb, 512x512 Ram PC 4300 (266MHz) I think it's 2 slots, max
NEC DVD+- ND 6500A
Considering this 320Gb drive.
I think the max i'd invest into this before buying a new one would be 200$ I don't even think the parts I can max out would even cross the 150$ mark. I can live with the DVD drive speeds cause I usually transfer any backed up DVD to it through my local internet, or cross-over cable.
My main uses for it are to watch DVD's while waiting for jobs to come in and this is only when I take it for out of town work or gigs. The last one was Hurricane Irene in New Jersey. The one before that was Hurricane Francis and Ivan Sept. 2007 so it doesn't see much usage but being stuck out of town and 5-8 different movies can easily be watched in a week let alone a month. A larger HDD or SSD drive would be kick *ss!
EDIT: one thing, i'm not sure how large a hard drive the machine will support. I've read people buying the 320Gb WD ide drive and their machines only recognize 137Gb out of it. I've checked the 'drive and downloads' page from dell and I have the latest bios.. so this could be one thing to look into before getting something like that.
Specs:
Intel Pentium M 740, 1.73GHz (Socket 479 mPGA) 90nm 😱
PATA/IDE 60Gb HDD
1Gb, 512x512 Ram PC 4300 (266MHz) I think it's 2 slots, max
NEC DVD+- ND 6500A
Considering this 320Gb drive.
I think the max i'd invest into this before buying a new one would be 200$ I don't even think the parts I can max out would even cross the 150$ mark. I can live with the DVD drive speeds cause I usually transfer any backed up DVD to it through my local internet, or cross-over cable.
My main uses for it are to watch DVD's while waiting for jobs to come in and this is only when I take it for out of town work or gigs. The last one was Hurricane Irene in New Jersey. The one before that was Hurricane Francis and Ivan Sept. 2007 so it doesn't see much usage but being stuck out of town and 5-8 different movies can easily be watched in a week let alone a month. A larger HDD or SSD drive would be kick *ss!
EDIT: one thing, i'm not sure how large a hard drive the machine will support. I've read people buying the 320Gb WD ide drive and their machines only recognize 137Gb out of it. I've checked the 'drive and downloads' page from dell and I have the latest bios.. so this could be one thing to look into before getting something like that.
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