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802.11 b/g/n (WiFi Connected via the PCI bus)
802.11 b/g/n (WiFi Connected via the PCI bus)
Yes, it looks like a wireless adapter to me as well, but cannot be certain, because the photo is so out of focus.
Clear photos are always appreciated.
Clear photos are not possible with the camera I used to take them. It's all I had at the time.
Certainly understandable, I wasn't trying to be judgmental. Just making a suggestion.
It's fairly obvious what it is anyway, don't worry about it mate
The CPU will be underneath a heatsink, under all the plastic casing.
I'm a bit stupid here lol. Would it be easily removed in this particular model? (Eg. It is in a slot or is held down by a clip or something) Or is it soldered on?
I looked up your model, it is odd that on a normal sized laptop 15 inches or so, the cpu is soldered to the board and not socketed. You might be able to find a 2ghz+ board on ebay but replacing the entire board is a b*. I recomend upgrading ram and hard drive for noticeable performance increase.
I would sudgest if you want a laptop to learn to take apart and stuff, there is a dude selling IBM R52's on ebay for around $40. I got mine a little cheaper with some missing screws, they are similar in performance to yours, easy to take apart, and the parts and upgrades for these suckers are endless. If you want a real upgrade a T60 with a dual core would be more worth looking into, but idk if he has any of those. If anything just get a core 2 duo based laptop off of ebay, they're suprisingly cheap now a days (windows 8 dropping support on crapton of models? idk)
Yes, it looks like a wireless adapter to me as well, but cannot be certain, because the photo is so out of focus.
Clear photos are always appreciated.
Thanks for your response.
To be accurate, this laptop has a screen size of 14" or so, I thought it was 13" before.
And I'm not saying the laptop is slow, it's actually quite quick and snappy on Windows XP (Which I'm keeping on it, though Windows 8 would run just fine on this laptop as it does on my netbook), I just want to boost the performance and I'd also want to squeeze out any extra performance for running other programs. It already is running on a 7200 RPM hard drive and 1GB of RAM. This one laptop would take up to 2GB which is kinda low. Depending on the motherboard I could upgrade the laptop to, would that limitation be increased to 3 or 4GB? Or would it stay the same? Not only that, but since the graphics is also soldered on, couldn't that also be upgraded at the same time, again, depending on the motherboard?
Also, am I correct that in most laptop models, graphics adapters (Similar to a desktop computer) on laptops would not be possible, unless external, which is also not easy?