Upgrade options for a Fujitsu P166 LAPTOP.

[roid]

It's about 3 years old now, Fujitsu P166 with 15" Active Matrix monitor. My mom who works for NASA and the FAA on Aimes Air Force base in San Francisco, is getting a new laptop gov't paid, and I helped her pick out a Sony VAOI 1GHz P4 with 512MB (no trashing please, I dislike P4's greatly but the Gov't was paying for it, and I wanted her to get a P3 but the P4 seemed to be nice with a 16" XGA 1600x1200 screen). I asked her if I could have her crap old laptop and she said sure. Now I don't know squat about laptops. Let me ask, can I put enough memory in it to take it too 256MB? I don't know what type of memory it is, but when it was a 'current PC', the memory for it was extremely expensive. I think it is a laptop type of SIMM. I would also want to put a K6-2 500 in it, is this possible? Now, video card. Doesn't ATi make a good laptop video card? Radeon VE I think? I am not sure, I have totally ignored laptops, always. I really have no use for it but I have one more place on my hub for CS LAN games (9 computers that can handle CS so far, counting my main comp which is fast). If K6-2 500, 256MB and a Radeon VE or nVidia card (please tell me some?) couldn't handle CS, I'd be amazed. It has a 2GB 5400 RPM drive, which is fine. It has a touch pad also, which I can't stand so I will buy a mouse for it.

Please throw some info at me!

thanks

roid

 

[roid]

Another important thing about the video card. I don't think the mobo in it has AGP, but that is just a guess. This narrows down my options doesn't it? Are their any PCI laptop video cards that are actually fast enough to handle 640x480 CS? The card it has will pump out 30fps at 800x600 in Q2...and thats with P166 and 64MB!

 

[roid]

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[roid]

Your telling me that nobody in this wise group of people knows about laptops?

at least I feel better for being braindead about them.

 

[dszd0g]

That's because generally this is what sucks about laptops. One can generally add more memory or on some laptops upgrade the video. However, for the most part when one's laptop gets old and slow (yours) one has to replace it. There really isn't an alternative.

 

[Soccerman]

hehehe..

just put linux on it and use it as an MP3 player!

 

[roid]

heh I am trying to figure out a good use for it, like an mp3 player..

It is so godly slow..


There are no processor upgrades available??

I can do 128MB though, 64MB is unacceptable.

Can anyone provide me with some information on laptop video cards? Please?

 

[Zepper]

Laptop video is seldom upgradable except, perhaps, video memory. Fujitsu has a web site and you can look it up for yourself. ...who helps himself.
.bh.

 

[roid]

It's a 4 year old laptop, the Fujitsu site acts like it doesn't exist...

 

[Splork]

All I have to say is..Goodluck!

-sp

 

[roid]

lol thanks splork

 

[roid]

Ok I give up lol. I will email fujitsu (this is very hard though, I am far too lazy for this work!!) and ask them about upgrades. the memory is dirt cheap, 15 bucks for 64mb..

 

[Workin']

I think you are probably very mistaken if you think you can get 64MB of RAM for that thing for $15. Since it's a P166, it's likely that it uses EDO memory, which costs more like $100 for 64MB. Also, it likely uses Intel's TX chipset, which doesn't cache memory addresses beyond 64MB, so having more memory than that can actually SLOW the system down by about 5%.

About 0.00001% of laptops let you upgrade the CPU or video card. I would say either use the machine the way it is or else forget about it.

 

[billabong]

When are P4 laptops being released? I was under the impression it wasnt few a couple of months till the 0.13 die shrink?