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aphexface
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_ 		17. April 2006 @ 06:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i bought a cheap laptop before i went to uni, thinking i'd do jack all with it but have got addicted to farting around with it, as i bought a cheap one it can't run half the things & games i want it too. i have a compaq presario m2000,i have upgraded the ram and hard drive, does anyone know if i can upgrade cpu and graphics card? i have a ati radeon xpress 200m and the graphics are crap, cheers.
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BigDK
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_ 		17. April 2006 @ 07:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
You are basically stuck with what you have.
Replacinga laptop CPU is not easy and chances are upgrade won't even be supported on the board.
As for the graphics, there are now some USB 2.0 graphics cards available, but they are intended as support for additonal monitors or replacement of damaged onboard VGA, they are definately not upgrades.
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raceman94
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_ 		17. April 2006 @ 07:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
At the very least, you can add RAM and change out the Hard drive. Short of that, not much.
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BigDK
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_ 		17. April 2006 @ 08:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Trouble is, he's already done the HDD and RAM upgrade, as stated in his first comment, so he's now out of options.
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raceman94
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_ 		17. April 2006 @ 08:29 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Damn! Didn't even read the article. I just paid attention to the title and commented. Yea, I guess he is outta luck now...
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Windows XP Media Center Edition, Pentium 4 3GHz w/ HT Technolgy / (1) 200 GB Internal SATA Hard Drive and (1) Western Digital Caviar 400GB Internal SATA Hard Drive,
2GB DDR 333MHZ / RADEON X700 PRO 256 MB PCI Express Graphics Card / 1 Westinghouse 19-Inch LCD Monitor
Logitech X-531 5.1 Speaker System

1 MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen with a 2.16GHz Intel Core Due Processor
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aphexface
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_ 		18. April 2006 @ 07:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
ha ha yeah cheers for the info, however should've just bought a decent laptop. b*****ks.
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