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Useless Laptop?!?!

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liquorboy

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I just was given an IBM Thinkpad 760EL. I'm pretty sure its around a 133mhz cpu/32mb ram/8x cdrom.

I was wondering if anyone knew if I could simply pull out the mainboard and replace it with a faster cpu/more ram/dvd.

Thinkpads are real easy it looks like to pull the hardware out and I was wondering if this was possible to do and where I could even get the parts. Thanks for the help. 🙂
 


<< I was wondering if anyone knew if I could simply pull out the mainboard and replace it with a faster cpu/more ram/dvd. >>

The fastest mainboard, etc. that will fit in there would be the board from a 760XL, which is a Pentium 166. Not really worth the effort. Laptop parts like that are very model-specific, not much interchangeablity among different units. And there is no source for aftermarket or 3rd-party motherboards.

About all you could do is upgrade the RAM to 80-something megabytes (that's all it can hold), put in a larger hard drive, but the 760-series ThinkPads can only use drives up to 6.0GB, larger drives will not be recognized at all, and a DVD drive is so far out of the question it's not even a dream. CPU is not upgradeable.
 
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