wise CPU swap decision?

[fire400]

there is a P4 3.2ghz laptop with a 4200rpm drive

I am going to put in a P4 2.53ghz northwood and a 7200rpm drive into the laptop.

system currently has 512mb RAM, just office applications running like Office XP

longer battery life, laptop won't cook as much heat...?

smart move?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

A smarter move would have been swapping to a laptop with a P-M.

DTR notebooks weren't meant for battery life.

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
A smarter move would have been swapping to a laptop with a P-M.

DTR notebooks weren't meant for battery life.

QFT

 

[Zebo]

Yea sell quick and get a Pentium M deal from dell.. keep you eyes on hot deal sites like gottadeal.

 

[fire400]

i'm not buying or selling anything, I just want input

 

[bob4432]

leave the 4200rpm hdd in and put in the 2.xx GHz cpu, if you want a littl extra battery life, although it won't get you much. like others stated, dtr cpus = bad battery life

 

[fire400]

what the heck is a DTR cpu? a Pentium M will offer better battery life, but at the cost of performance compared to the 3.2?

 

[PhlashFoto]

Id keep the 3.2GHz cpu and add the 7200rpm drive. Might as well max out the performance since you won't be saving much batery life to begin with.

 

[cryogenic666]

DTR = DeskTop Replacement?

 

[lyssword]

at least amd cpu's don't eat much power to start with 😛 (heh lol did I have to say that ? 😛)

 

[0roo0roo]

you can always get a giant external battery instead..since ur laptop is already giant.
valence n charge or something...