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Posted by treenoakio@googlemail.com on May 7, 2008, 7:49 am
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> treenoa...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > Hi, My daughter was just given an Acer Travelmate 2420 by her friend
> > who's upgraded to a Mac laptop.
> > The Travelmate 2420 has a Celeron M CPU and 40GB HD. I know it can be
> > upgraded to 2GB of RAM and I hope it can accept a several hundred GB
> > hard drive. If I do upgrade the memory and HD, will the laptop have
> > the capacity to run graphics and video editing software reasonably
> > well, or will the Celeron M processor not be up to that level of task?
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Dick Treen
>
> Factor the cost of the RAM upgrade and HD upgrade against the cost of a
> new notebook. Notebook price/performance is substantially less than it
> was even two years ago. You might be surprised.
>
> The Celeron CPUs are ok, but you can get a dual core, either Intel or
> AMD, that will smoke that Celeron into the ground.
>
> If you do nothing more than email and web, then I wouldn't spend a cent
> on that notebook since you will not notice the difference in performance
> with either a RAM or HD upgrade.
>
> Q
Thanks for the input. The RAM upgrade is surprisingly inexpensive and
the hard drive can always be tranferred to a new use later. I'm not
expecting amazing results but might find it's been worth a punt.
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Regards,
Dick Treen
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