Hi,
well, this is interesting. Got my bargain basement Tecra A4 on Friday (£500 for the lowest spec version - celeron M 1.5 GHz). It runs fine (since I put another gig of RAM in anyway!), but after taking the bottom flaps off I realised that the really oddly shaped one on the left hand side reveals...the cpu!
Now, its simply a plate for a HSF over the socket, with a heatpipe that leads to the actual heatsink. What I don't see is how having the slot there helps replace the cpu as surely the heatpipe is soldered/welded to the heatsink and the heatplate (what else do you call the thing that is on the cpu?)...I don't want to start undoing the plate if its not gonna do me any good, but logic tells me that it must be possible to move the heatplate off the cpu without opening up the whole laptop...else why would the panel be there in the first place?
Has anyone else done a cpu upgrade on their Tecra A4? I'm not planning on doing it now anyway (give the thing time to see if its gonna need a warranty repair!), but bumping it from a celery 1.5 to a PM 2.13 in a few months sounds like a fantastic idea to me...when prices come down a bit.
To be honest I could upgrade to a 1.73 GHz PM right now and it'd be cheaper than buying that spec straight out...who knows...
Anyway, I tried googling with no joy...any ideas?
Oh on the whole the laptop is very nice, solid keyboard, well finished etc...nice screen, no dead pixels and all that
Thanks!
well, this is interesting. Got my bargain basement Tecra A4 on Friday (£500 for the lowest spec version - celeron M 1.5 GHz). It runs fine (since I put another gig of RAM in anyway!), but after taking the bottom flaps off I realised that the really oddly shaped one on the left hand side reveals...the cpu!
Now, its simply a plate for a HSF over the socket, with a heatpipe that leads to the actual heatsink. What I don't see is how having the slot there helps replace the cpu as surely the heatpipe is soldered/welded to the heatsink and the heatplate (what else do you call the thing that is on the cpu?)...I don't want to start undoing the plate if its not gonna do me any good, but logic tells me that it must be possible to move the heatplate off the cpu without opening up the whole laptop...else why would the panel be there in the first place?
Has anyone else done a cpu upgrade on their Tecra A4? I'm not planning on doing it now anyway (give the thing time to see if its gonna need a warranty repair!), but bumping it from a celery 1.5 to a PM 2.13 in a few months sounds like a fantastic idea to me...when prices come down a bit.
To be honest I could upgrade to a 1.73 GHz PM right now and it'd be cheaper than buying that spec straight out...who knows...
Anyway, I tried googling with no joy...any ideas?
Oh on the whole the laptop is very nice, solid keyboard, well finished etc...nice screen, no dead pixels and all that
Thanks!
