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swap a intel core duo CPU into a macbook

post #1 of 17
6/28/07 at 5:19am
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I have a 14.1 inch macbook with an intel core 2 duo 2.16 ghz, is it possilbe to swap in an intel core duo t2350 @ 186ghz????

I would like to swap the cpu from my macbook into my Dell e1705 because I don't game on the macbook!

Thanks people!
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post #2 of 17
6/28/07 at 11:55am
I am pretty sure that the CPU is not removable in the Macs, but maybe someone who know this for sure will answer.
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post #3 of 17
6/28/07 at 12:40pm
no it is not possible.

and you have either a 13.3" macbook, or a 15.4" mbp.

the cpu is soldered on
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post #4 of 17
6/28/07 at 4:04pm
If your computer is 14.1 inches you have an iBook which uses a completely different CPU in the first place.
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post #5 of 17
6/28/07 at 4:07pm
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I just assumed it was 14 inches, I got it for my girlfriend and frankly could care less about apple computers, but thanks for the help guys, it sucks that apple solders the cpu down to the motherboard, thats not too bright!
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post #6 of 17
6/28/07 at 4:15pm
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Originally Posted by dirtyoldblackma View Post
I just assumed it was 14 inches, I got it for my girlfriend and frankly could care less about apple computers, but thanks for the help guys, it sucks that apple solders the cpu down to the motherboard, thats not too bright!
how is that not bright? It is neither bright nor not bright, it is simply their decision. By soldering it on, they were able to save a few milimeters of laptop thickness, so viewed in that light it is a bright choice. From the perspective of a person that wants to tear apart two computers in order to get an additional 300MHz I guess it could be construed as not bright, but then I consider your plan to be not too bright.
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post #7 of 17
6/28/07 at 4:24pm
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The ability to upgrade a laptop is important, I can understand saving a few millimeters is important, but in my computers upgradeable, and customization rein supreme in the scheme of things.

but then again, I didn't really buy a macbook to take it apart, t'was just an idea.
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post #8 of 17
6/28/07 at 4:27pm
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Originally Posted by dirtyoldblackma View Post
The ability to upgrade a laptop is important, I can understand saving a few millimeters is important, but in my computers upgradeable, and customization rein supreme in the scheme of things. but then again, I didn't really buy a macbook to take it apart, t'was just an idea.
And that is where we disagree. A laptop is meant to be portable, upgradeability takes second seat to portability everyday. You can't upgrade your cell phone because it is meant to be small and portable (among other reasons) I certainly feel that RAM and HDDs in laptops should be accessible to the user, but the point of the laptop is that it is a self contained unit, therefore the screen, the keyboard, the trackpad, the processor, the graphics card, the case... these are all things that are almost never upgradeable on a laptop. Conversely to a desktop which is infinitely upgradeable... it is a difference in mentality.
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post #9 of 17
6/28/07 at 8:06pm
nice how you wanna rip the faster CPU out of your girlfriends new computer for your own use

id lose my balls for that.
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post #10 of 17
6/28/07 at 10:27pm
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She wouldn't care, the slower cpu is still WAYYY faster than needed for firefox and ichat
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post #11 of 17
6/29/07 at 12:18pm
oh i know, i was just saying

my gf wouldnt even realize. however, apple would if it ever went in for work.
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post #12 of 17
7/4/07 at 3:28am
nothing's really upgradeable in laptops anyway. By the time things get outdated, not only are the chips/cards outdated, but so are the sockets! I mean, how many times has AMD changed sockets for its athlon64 line in the past 2 years? ...754, 939, am2, can't even remember .. and then throw in some chipset changes ...

..but you get the point :\ Not trying to rain on your parade or anything, just trying be realistic about upgradeability in the mobile world
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post #13 of 17
7/5/07 at 12:39am
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Originally Posted by garygchouvln View Post
I mean, how many times has AMD changed sockets for its athlon64 line in the past 2 years? ...754, 939, am2, can't even remember .. and then throw in some chipset changes ...
Actually, Intel has been MUCH worse in this regard. AMD has introduced too many sockets lately, but they have been supporting older sockets for quite a while after the newer ones came out. The PCI Express and DDR2 updates killed me.

My last Sager machine was supposed to be upgradable, but upgrading a video card meant replacing the motherboard too, so the whole thing ended up costing $1200 if you don't give them your old video card. I've given up on the thinking these things can be upgraded... so I just get the max config and upgrade in 2 years. There's nothing more frustrating than having a huge beast of a laptop when there's little notepad sized machines that can blow it away.
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post #14 of 17
7/5/07 at 8:45am
I think that the main way that intel is worse is in their chipsets rather than their sockets. For the whole of the lifetime of Pentium 4, they had 3 sockets. 478, 775 and something before 478 i think 423. However, almost anytime tehy changed anything other than clockspeed on the chips, they changed the chipset. And that just got annoying.
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post #15 of 17
7/5/07 at 5:14pm
hehe sorry, not trying to pick on AMD or anything. I have great respect for them as an applied research body. I just needed a quick example that would help illustrate the point.
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my last Sager machine was supposed to be upgradable, but upgrading a video card meant replacing the motherboard too
bigtrouble77 successfully refutes a common counterargument to the "My-laptop-is-upgradeable" viewpoint. I had always wondered how "upgradeable" those big gaming rigs were
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post #16 of 17
7/5/07 at 5:25pm
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Originally Posted by garygchouvln View Post
hehe sorry, not trying to pick on AMD or anything. I have great respect for them as an applied research body. I just needed a quick example that would help illustrate the point. bigtrouble77 successfully refutes a common counterargument to the "My-laptop-is-upgradeable" viewpoint. I had always wondered how "upgradeable" those big gaming rigs were
I wonder if Alienware still sells machines that allow for upgradeable video cards. Those were truly upgradeable, you could remove the video card entirely from the motherboard and replace it with an upgrade
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post #17 of 17
7/5/07 at 9:22pm
When you could actually get a new video card. I kept an eye on them for a while, and it seemed that it was actually GETTING a new video card to upgrade to, that was the problem.

Seablade
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