I once had an Acer Aspire 3003Li laptop which ran its course till it broke down. buy that I mean broke down. Many parts just kinda...died. My mother gave me an old Dell Latitude M166MT to consol me. This laptop rocks. It is far better built than my old laptop and the clearity of the screen is far better than that of my old Acer. However, it is old. It has windows 95 still. I cannot upgrade with only 8 mb. There also is only a 2 gig hard drive. What do I do to upgrade it. It is slow so is it possible to increase its speed from 166 mhz to something larger. I love this laptop so don't say get a new one...I am to broke to do it, but I do have enough to upgrade. Please be specific to earn 10 pts.
2007-03-30 13:12:42 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
It's a laptop. they are virtually un-upgradable. The CPU is soldered on (or welded on in some cases). No CPU upgrade. The RAM expansion is limited. One slot if you are lucky and that old, probably unobtainable without going second hand.
The disk can be changed for a bigger one.
But that's about it.
Oh, you can probably put a PCMCIA modem or network card into it.
Sorry dude, the best upgrade to an old laptop like that is to go buy a better one. You can buy a second hand one that will out perform it in lots of ways for under $100/£50 on ebay.
Turn that one into a digitap picture frame.
2007-03-30 13:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by bambamitsdead 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first respondent covers it pretty well.
Just to offer a second opinion ....save your time.... upgrading that unit is virtually futile.
Such is the nature of notebook PCs.
regards,
Philip T
2007-03-30 21:46:13 · answer #2 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋