I'm thinking about Upgrading my Satelite A25-S207,
maybe I can get a few more years out of it and wait till the I-5 and I-7's, LCD backlite, blue ray, and cell modem, are relitively commonplace, I bought it about 8 years ago..
Specs are P4 2.66, 40g HD 4200rpm, 512 pc2100, WiFi- b, plus the regular stuff..
I have Win XP Pro sp3 installed, and also an updated bios..
It still works great, just getting a little slow, and definitely needs a bigger hard drive..
On the memory I'm thinking about installing 1 gig, PC2700 or PC3200 instead of the standard PC2100, still have to research the compatability..
I believe the most it will support is 1 gig..
I also want to upgrade the Harddrive, does anyone know the size limit, right now it only has a 40 gig in it, would like to go to at least 100 gig.. I don't care if it doesn't recognize all of it, but don't want to buy a 160 and only have it recognize 80..
and the specs call for a ATA-5, but there are plenty of ATA-6 out there, are they backwards compatible..
wondering if it's worth putting the money into such an old Laptop, and if the upgrades would make that much of a difference, Should cost about 150$
or should I just chuck it and buy a new 1..
TIA
kinda pissed at myself, Toshiba would have given me 200$ for it untill about 2 or 3 months ago, was so busy watching for a deal on a new 1, I let it slip away, now they'll only give me 87$.
maybe I can get a few more years out of it and wait till the I-5 and I-7's, LCD backlite, blue ray, and cell modem, are relitively commonplace, I bought it about 8 years ago..
Specs are P4 2.66, 40g HD 4200rpm, 512 pc2100, WiFi- b, plus the regular stuff..
I have Win XP Pro sp3 installed, and also an updated bios..
It still works great, just getting a little slow, and definitely needs a bigger hard drive..
On the memory I'm thinking about installing 1 gig, PC2700 or PC3200 instead of the standard PC2100, still have to research the compatability..
I believe the most it will support is 1 gig..
I also want to upgrade the Harddrive, does anyone know the size limit, right now it only has a 40 gig in it, would like to go to at least 100 gig.. I don't care if it doesn't recognize all of it, but don't want to buy a 160 and only have it recognize 80..
and the specs call for a ATA-5, but there are plenty of ATA-6 out there, are they backwards compatible..
wondering if it's worth putting the money into such an old Laptop, and if the upgrades would make that much of a difference, Should cost about 150$
or should I just chuck it and buy a new 1..
TIA
kinda pissed at myself, Toshiba would have given me 200$ for it untill about 2 or 3 months ago, was so busy watching for a deal on a new 1, I let it slip away, now they'll only give me 87$.
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