Dear Forum, I am thinking of getting an old Dell Latitude x1 PP05S 12" netbook. I really like the light weight and asthetics, but it uses a Pentium M processor and will be really slow. Is there anything I can do to speed it up? Does anyone make replacement mother boards for modern CPU's; or can I substitute a better CPU?
I don't think you can put a newer motherboard in that, I believe that CPU is only running @ 1.1 ghz.. Not sure on the ram.. you would be better off just buying a newer laptop/notebook that is a dual core or Quad core...
That might use mPGA socket 479, which hasn't been manufactured in years. Unfortunately, laptops aren't as easy to upgrade as desktops. There aren't a few formfactors to choose from, and the laptops offerings often dictate what design the laptop motherboard will take. Your options will basically boil down to RAM, and a hard drive. An SSD would be ideal, but if the hard drive uses an ATA interface, it won't be able to accept the newer SATA one, which I'm pretty positive is the only way you'll see one in your system. However, other technologies in regular drives should still offer a bonus if you upgrade. Outside of those two, yeah, your next option is to simply upgrade to a new laptop.
