The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Upgrading to Merom predictions

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by MrWacko, Jun 3, 2006.

  1. MrWacko

    MrWacko Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    73
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    How difficult do you think it'll be to upgrade a Yonah (Core Duo) processor to a Merom (Core 2 Duo) processor? The Laptop I'm planning on getting is the LG S1, but I don't know if it's worth it to wait for LG to upgrade the model, or if I should just get it when they go on sale/get reduced in price.
     
    MrWacko, Jun 3, 2006
    #1
  2. Lyshen

    Lyshen Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    96
    Messages:
    330
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    To upgrade physically won't really be hard for most laptops, the question is though will your laptop support it.

    The first version of the Merom will be pin compatible with current Core Duo CPUs but most laptops will probably need a new BIOS update to support the microcode of the new CPUs. But it has been shown that a few laptops do work with Merom without a BIOS update (Engineering Sample CPU).
     
    Lyshen, Jun 3, 2006
    #2