Hey, I've got a Dell Latitude C840. We bought it in 2003. I'm finding it's really not fast enough for what I want to do with it (Video edit, game a little, photo editing).
Here's what it has: Mobile Intel Pentium 4 – M CPU 2.00GHz 1.99GHz, 512 MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go (I think with 64 mb graphics ram, i'm not sure)
Usb port (I don't know whether it's 1 or slower than 1
60 GB Hard Drive.
I take alot of photos, (I might become a photographer) I have about 19 gb of them. I'm also into Video, so I'm trying to do some editing (not working, way too slow).
My problems: My hard drive is full, I definitely need a bigger hard drive.
The usb port is extremely slow, my desktop computer (bought at same time as this laptop) doesn't even have usb 2.0 and it's twice as fast. Video editing is very slow (CPU problem or RAM problem??) Games don't run very fast at all, and i'm talking about older games like battlefield 1942.
So basically, I'd like to know, what is the maximum that I can upgrade everything, CPU, GPU, USB, Hard Drive, anything.
And/or, tell me if it's even worth it (How much would it roughly cost), and would it even be that fast once I upgraded it, or if I should just get a new laptop
Thanks so much, AJ
Here's what it has: Mobile Intel Pentium 4 – M CPU 2.00GHz 1.99GHz, 512 MB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go (I think with 64 mb graphics ram, i'm not sure)
Usb port (I don't know whether it's 1 or slower than 1
60 GB Hard Drive.
I take alot of photos, (I might become a photographer) I have about 19 gb of them. I'm also into Video, so I'm trying to do some editing (not working, way too slow).
My problems: My hard drive is full, I definitely need a bigger hard drive.
The usb port is extremely slow, my desktop computer (bought at same time as this laptop) doesn't even have usb 2.0 and it's twice as fast. Video editing is very slow (CPU problem or RAM problem??) Games don't run very fast at all, and i'm talking about older games like battlefield 1942.
So basically, I'd like to know, what is the maximum that I can upgrade everything, CPU, GPU, USB, Hard Drive, anything.
And/or, tell me if it's even worth it (How much would it roughly cost), and would it even be that fast once I upgraded it, or if I should just get a new laptop
Thanks so much, AJ
(1x1gb chip and 1x256mb) I took the chips from an Inspiron 700m which was being upgraded.They are PC2700 chips. I am pretty sure that the C840 motherbaod will go up to 2GB even tho the literature says 1GB. Mine is living proof it can go above 1GB anway. I have another 512MB chip which I am replacing the 256MB one with tommorow and I fully expect to see 1.5GB opf RAM I wanted to include a piccie from WinMSD but can't see a way to just add an attachement ... MrMiyagi
