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Laptop upgrades focus mainly on adding memory and increasing hard drive capacity

Laptops can only upgrade memory, hard drives, wireless network devices and CPU processors. The market has companies specializing in laptop upgrades such as 1000.com or vitinh4k.

Types of components such as memory, hard drives, CPU processors in these places all have hundreds of different types to meet different types of computers of customers.

Laptop upgrades focus mainly on adding memory and increasing hard drive capacity

Kim, vitinh4K store, said: ' The most easy-to-upgrade laptop is Dell, next is IBM, then HP, Sony . Normally when customers want to upgrade the computer, they need to bring the device. Go to the store to let employees identify the types of chips inside the machine (based on the code, use chip reading software), to determine the maximum upgrade capacity for the laptop.

For example, with Intel 945 or 965 processor chips, the ability to replace newer CPUs into the machine like Core 2 Duo. In case other wireless network cards of customers with flickering speed can be upgraded from components of newer models such as Acer computers with some models using Broadcom's network card, Atheros, it is possible. replaced by the newer Intel N standard types .

However, the upgrade of the laptop is not recommended by the manufacturer due to processor changes that may affect the operation of the machine. Normally, the internal cooling unit does not meet the higher flow.

In other cases, not all laptops can be upgraded because the manufacturer has 'killed' the processor on the circuit, so disassembling the device may affect the technology. There are models that cannot upgrade the processor: IBM X series, Dell X series .