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post #1 of 11
3/6/09 at 8:50pm
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Needing help in deciding which old notebook to keep up and running for my 6 year old.
I have 3 to choose from ….
1. Gateway Solo 1200 – 800 MHz, 320meg
2. Compaq Presario 1700T – 650 MHz, 512meg
3. Hp Pavilion n5150 – 600 MHz, 320meg

I will be running XP Home on a 100 gig hard drive.

Want to use the best for speed and performance.

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post #2 of 11
3/7/09 at 3:29am
#2 Compaq, simply because it supports more ram, which is what Windows needs.

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post #3 of 11
3/7/09 at 4:08am
I'd go for either of the first two. What kind of programs are you intending to run for him? If they ram intensive either a cheap upgrade or the second one.
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post #4 of 11
3/7/09 at 11:29am
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The Gateway needs nothing but to put the hard drive in (it only has a 10 and is slow).
The Compaq is in need of a thermal sensor (15.00) and ram (40.00).
The HP needs a hard drive caddy (12.00)
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post #5 of 11
3/7/09 at 12:35pm
The Gateway will still be slow with the lack of ram and I am not sure about the 100gb drive in there. Same as with the HP. Saying that, the Compaq seems to have more issues than the other 2.

I vote to get her a good 2nd hand laptop that you probably can find for less than 200$, intead of investing $$ and time to fix the other ones up.

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post #6 of 11
3/8/09 at 2:03pm
Can you swap out some of the RAM to put the most RAM in the fastest and newest machine? If it's compatible it shouldn't be a problem to do this.
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post #7 of 11
3/8/09 at 4:22pm
I believe that the mentioned models are already at max ram allowed. That is a kicker.

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post #8 of 11
3/8/09 at 9:39pm
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SO was playing around looking for a cheap price for new thermal for the Compaq and came across a possible processor upgrade.
Can't seem to find any info about the board, if it could handle a faster processor.

Any one able to help with this?
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post #9 of 11
3/8/09 at 10:47pm
You can play with a 900-1000ghz range cpu, at your own risk. I popped in a 1.1ghz on my HP N5470 before with no issue. Taking in consideration these good old dinosaurs, you would have a good chance; just don't quote me on it

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post #10 of 11
3/9/09 at 12:43am
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Can't find any specs or information about the motherboard. But I suppose dropping $20 on a processor isn't that big of a deal.
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post #11 of 11
3/9/09 at 2:04am
Yep, that was how I did on my HP, 15$ for the AMD1.1ghz

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