Turns out that my "old laptop" is actually surprisingly upgradable! · 4:55am May 16th, 2017
I honestly didn't expect that, considering how laptops these days are pretty much as locked down as phones in terms of upgradability.
BUT.
After browsing some forums, looking at Acer's spec sheet, CPU-Z's report of the chipset, and endless browsing on CPUBoss. I've determined that the Core 2 duo t7300 will make a very nice (and cheap!) upgrade from the single-core Celeron 900 that's been running my laptop for nearly a decade. (Yet I still haven't removed that spec sticker next to the trackpad, and boy am I glad that I didn't.)
Basically, what was originally bought for me as a homework laptop has outlasted a second, much newer laptop just from having a better specced CPU (in terms of overall performance. Multi-core is obviously N/A since the Celeron 900 is single core), as well as many, many days of use.
The CPU itself is nearing its 10th year, having been released in 2008 as a low-power (for the time) CPU, at 35 watts.
However, with a $10 CPU off of Amazon, I can literally double the performance, as well as enable overclocking, virtualization, and a crapton of other features that once would've cost around $200 to add to the laptop.
And on top of the CPU upgrade, if I cram it with the max. of 4 gigs of RAM supported by the motherboard, and replace the hard drive with an SSD loaded with an image of the current triple-boot system of Win10, Android (Remix OS), and Ubuntu, then I'd say that I'd pretty much have the ultimate laptop I could possibly afford.
Now then. Time to look for pocket change for 10 bucks.
Also, adding on to this blog: The Core 2 duo t7300 is ironically already 10 years old, but since it's a much higher-end processor, it still outpaces the newer single core Celeron.
I need a Computer T-T, my latest Blog will tell ya why i need one EVEN MORE now T-T