i have this really old laptop, a toshiba satellite M20, which has become obsolete over the years... it's got 223 ram, 30gig HDD, centrino... so i was thinking in upgrading the pc's motherboard, processor and ram... is that possible? and if it is, is it adviceable?
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Jump to Postmotherboard : definately not
cpu: probably not
ram: alsmost certainly yessome ram will make wonders. i had a similar machine (ibm thinkpad with a pentium 3 and 30gb hdd) and i upgraded it from 128mb to 512mb and it works very well for office tasks, internet etc...
Jump to Postlaptop ones are custom to that model - the only time you can ever replace a laptop motherboard is to swap it with one from an identical laptop e.g if it breaks (my motherboard broke in an ibm laptop so i ebayed an identical one with a broken screen and …
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