You can upgrade it to the fastest pentium-m dothan thats currently available. The question is where can you buy it from for cheap?
EDIT: I checked pricewatch and 2.1 Dothan is like $600, while the 2.0 is $450.
Take this money...
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Originally Posted by Great King Bows
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Check to see if they have hacked firmware for your drive.
I used their firmware to make my NEC 6100A a 6500A with region-free support as well as...
I have the NEC ND-6500A DL DVD+-RW, got it from newegg. It's worth every penny, if like me, you do not want to deal with external drive. Replacing it took about 5 minutes. Just needed to preserve the external plate from the original...
I have same memory that aznoohwee has, the Kingmax 1gb pc2700, it is only cas 2.5 (but who cares for laptop), it runs like a champ. Passed 5 hours of memtest86 with not a hickup also did great with sandra sisoft. I got it from newegg...
now, on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6744296903
also selling slimline dvd/cd-rw -- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6744317983