i miss those days when you could just swap and change the CPU, RAM, WLAN card, GPU and HDD😢😭

Hey, back in 2000s almost everything was upgradable. Most common thing I remember is big door on the bottom of laptop case that gave access to HDD, RAM, CPU, optical drive and expansion cards like wifi. Even more recent laptops have those - like Dell E7470 that I use as my main machine. LCD expansion function was very common on Pentim I/II machines (especially IBMs and Toshibas).

The ThinkPad T440p is nearly as easy, 2 screws come off the bottom and then the cover slides off revealing just about everything (RAM, storage, CPU, optical drive, wireless card, etc), however you still have to loosen the screws and unplug the cooling assembly before you can replace the processor. I miss the upgradeability of these older laptops. Great video!

Laptops are probably one of the technological areas that have regressed the most in recent years when it comes to upgradeability and IO. My most recent laptop is from 2015 if I remember correctly. It isn't a particularly high-performance model or anything (it has a celeron for a processor), but despite that it still featured upgradeable ram, wlan, storage bay and a dvd drive. I've changed out my dvd drive for an additional hard drive in a caddy. I will however switch it back whenever I need to use some optical media. It's not hot-swappable, but it isn't a hassle either. Furthermore, it also had, what used to be, a normal amount of IO. Seriously, what's up with modern electronics and a severe lack of IO? Modern TVs are even worse. Are you supposed to just throw out all your old stuff or keep an old TV around? Or are you supposed to buy those signal converter boxes from brands you've never heard of, that are questionable at best?

Nice one, was similarly surprised how upgradable my Inspiron 8100 was - the graphics card was also replacable, and it accepted the card and display panel from my somewhat broken Latitude C840. Went from a 1400x1050 display and Geforce2Go 16MB to a 1600x1200 display and GeForce 4 440 Go 64MB, and couple that with a 1.2GHz PIII-M upgrade, it's now an insane Windows 98/ME system! Only 4 screws and a somewhat annoying retention bar to upgrade the CPU, and a further 4 for the GPU.

2:37 The engineer responsible for this was probably looked at with contempt by sales people.

for someone with 1.4k subs your videos are really well put together, hope your channel grows!

They really don't make em like they used to... My almost 10 year old Thinkpad T440P to this day still gets me through a lot of work. Never letting go of that beast. Trying to find an i7 4700MQ to swap out the stock i5. Literally everything else in my laptop has been swapped out lol. Really hope we'll get laptops like this again someday. Great video dude!

I had a Fujitsu Lifebook back in 2004, it had almost the same upgradability options aside from the CPU access which you need to tear down the laptop itself. but since it did not have Wifi Capability, back in the day, I purchased about 3 PCMCIA Express Expansion cards, 1 for Wifi, 1 for Bluetooth, and the other was a 4 Port USB 2.0 but what i loved the most about it is: 1. even when it just had a Pentium 4 M 3.0 HT, it out done the Desktop PC my family had at the time which was up to spec running Dual Core 3.0 CPU. 2. it had a small LCD screen with a few buttons mainly to be used as a Media Player control. with that said even if the LCD was closed, you had the capacity to play Music using the LCD and Player controls which was not covered by the LCD Screen and even see which was playing with that small screen.

yesterday i was literally disasembeling that exact laptop for a school project and noticed now easy it was to upgrade

I bought my Lenovo Thinkpad T420 in 2013 and it has doors on the bottom to upgrade Cd/RAM/Wifi and it has Express ports, You can change the CPU but you have to open up the case to do it which is not hard. So you can change an i5 for an i7. What I miss most about old laptops is removing the battery

I am probably one of 5 people that never ran into any problems with Vista. not a single issue with the 5 -7 machines I had it installed on.

My old Asus laptop from 2010 it can upgrade almost everything like cpu ram hdd ssd and even delicate gpu because it use mxm interface

In the past laptops were designed by engineers, later marketologists appeared.

When the manufacturers focus on delivering quality & robustness instead of planned obsolescence.

My first AT&T 486 laptop had the 1.44 meg floppy no sound card, no modem and only ONE PCMCIA slot. So I could either use the sound expansion or my 14.4 fax modem expansion to dial into AOL. I could not WAIT to get a pentium 100 laptop with TWO PCMCIA slots.... Of course laptops started coming with modems and sound cards built right in and I no longer needed the expansion slots. Though there is still one computer at work that needs the slot for a dedicated PLC communication. Oh how our tech changes! Great review!

Celeron M also doesn't have Speedstep fonctionnality. Another laptop easy to Upgrade is the Acer Extensa 4000 series (or aspire 1690) only 5screws to change the cpu.

when the laptops was literally portable desktops...

You can use the Express card slot to add 3 USB3 jacks, I did it on my Dell XPS M1730 and it works well.

What’s nice is that almost every Inspiron from this era up until the 2010’s was super easy to upgrade. You had to take em apart most of the time, but I’ve turbo charged so many dell laptops by upgrading their CPU’s, ram, and replacing their hard drives with SSD’s. They honestly are quite easy to turbo charge.

I think upgradability has been compromised with thinning out the laptops.

I have a big notebook that has the same kind of cooler design. But it supports Desktop Pentium 4 CPUs. Pretty interesting to see that inside a notebook.

I've kept my 2010 Dell Precision M4500 pretty up to date due to expansion. I still use it, it's been on and running almost every single day since I got it.

Benefits with optical drive is, that, it's possible to add extra storage like 2nd hard drive.

Laptops were so upgradable back then, I miss the old days.

ACER (back on the CELERON era) used one big cover that you can take off givving access to all memory wifi and CPU. The opening is big enough to take cooler and heatpipe .... which is good since allows more in depth cleaning

KZfaq really got bloated over the years, I remember being able to play 720p without any frame drops in 2010-11 when I stopped using my old Toshiba Satellite with similar Celeron, and moreso I remember playing 240p KZfaq on Pentium II 400MHz laptop around 2009 and it worked pretty well.

My old toshiba upgrade from i5 to i7, ssd drive and 16gb. Still runs solid. And its already 10 years old

I actually scrapped one of these recently; the doors on the underside were all missing or broken so reusing it wouldn't have been realistic. I was thoroughly impressed by the build quality though. I think the hinges were actually just incredibly solid; mine had had a lot of use and they still felt amazing. The only complaint I would have levelled at it was that it didn't use the standard Dell charging port.

The PCMCIA slots were for memory cards or air cards (cellular modems) to allow you to connect to the internet on the road. My internal modem crapped out so I wound up buying a PCMCIA modem card. Those were quite the thing in the late '90s and early 2000s.

Amazing, I have a costumer that bring me this laptop today. Beautiful dinosaur from 2006 working as the first day. I'm going to put an SSD inside with 2gb ram to see how the computer works. Beatiful video, beautiful dell, beautiful everything!

USB 4 and thunderbolt have the same idea, just implemented in a worse way. expresscard has PCI, those have PCIe it's a newer version of the same thing essentially. EC used to be the fastest way to transfer data out of the PC

I have a 2013 Dell Precision M6700, the socketed CPU and GPU cards are upgradable, it also has multiple storage bays for expansion. I am using it as a daily device at work and running Win 10. The Quadro K5000m is still doing a decent job for everything but modern video production encoding/decoding. I personally replaced the 3rd gen dual core I7 for the 4-core version.

I was a field warranty tech for Dell back in 2006 and I worked on a few B130's. The Celeron M is why the CPU can be located where it is with that tiny heatsink. Pentium M wouldn't be an issue either, but Celeron M was all that was offered on those. The B130 even mimics the appearance of the Dx20/Dx30 latitudes. It was a basic laptop for schools really, a few businesses had them when they didn't need a ton of power. Even though the Dx20 and Dx30 series didn't have the CPU under a cover like that, they were still VERY easy to disassemble. I disassembled a D820 Latitude so fast once (Motherboard replacement) the customer came back in the conference room as I was finishing up thinking I had only just begun. I think my best time on a D820 was 15 minutes from start to reassembled, without power tools.

I thought you were MJD LOL

god I miss those days, Most companies were like this, I worked on a bunch of brands from the early 2000's that all had easy access to every component

It's funny that I literally just did this on my B130 and filmed it as well before I ever even saw your video, which popped up on my feed as I was editing the video I shot of upgrading the laptop!

yep, thats dell. They always had good expandability and reparability on their laptops until they started using proprietary parts and crappy designs. I cant say the same for HP in the same time period. They had the same socketed things, but they made you take the entire chassis apart to get to them. I had to remove the motherboard to replace the cpu, and the hard drive is requires the whole thing to come apart. Props to dell for keeping it easy.

Everyone be talking 'bout framework n stuff but this dude right here is more upgradable and easier to maintain than any computer ever coming out ma guy. Linus' investment is endangered by this.

You could also install a light weight LINUX distro and have that sucker flying again (maybe even faster than when it was originally released) - and totally up-to-date.

12:08 "and just blew away all this back in my room ,thats..... good work" hahahahahahha i was crying of laugh :D

Built to last. Today's devices are nowhere close to this DELL's solid quality.

I'd be curious to see you try some different ram modules in there to see if you could improve the speed, or at least see some improved timings and if there is a measurable difference.

Well, regarding upgradability - some things make sense nowadays, while others don't (whatever Apple's doing never makes sense from the consumer standpoint, though). Soldered components can be faster (imagine having soldered LPDDRX ram right next to your cpu instead of having SODIMM slots that are far - traces-wise) and more energy efficient, and their small footprint allows for smaller and lighter devices - unlike the laptop you're working on. Replaceable batteries, MXM slot, upgradeable wifi and storage are great. But I'd rather have soldered cpu and ram and better non-upgraeable cooling, because that tiny copper cpu cooler wouldn't do nothing when paired with a modern cpu. Tech back then wasn't as demanding (and really far back there were no standards and companies did whatever they felt like is right), while nowadays the chips are so dense that doing it 'the old way' isn't practical. Companies like EUROCOM still offer 'upgradeable' laptops if that's really your thing, but I wouldn't call those LAPtops - more like dekstop replacements.

If you are interested in modular, upgradeable and serviceable laptops you may have heard of the Framework laptop. If you haven't - be sure to check them out as you can upgrade/replace/customize pretty much every part of it individually with the added benefit of the laptop actually being thin and light.

Business class laptops are a joy to upgrade. For all others, I've always been able to find a disassembly video right here on KZfaq!

and even on some laptops you can replace the gpu in laptops that use the MXM connector (Mobile PCI Express Module) a bit rare nowadays. also some were limited because of PC's biso proprietary junk that the OEMs used and on older dells they used i don't know what it called it was some kind of mini AGP or some other proprietary connector.

My father's laptop from 2012 had an amd cpu that you could also remove I once deep cleaned everything and accidentally bend one of the pins, though I was able to get it right again What was surprising to me is, those CPUs weigh nearly nothing and the pins are really really hard. Like, it can bend a pin if you drop, but actually trying to bend it back was quite the task.

This would kind of come in handy with gaming laptops with them giving us the max on how fast a CPU should be and if we can swap it out for Intel or AMD. I know that the GPU would still be built in "since some manufactures had tried that in the past with upgradability" but, regardless it would at least be nice to get an option just like that

nice! i have an ipsiron 6400, discreteradeon gpu and an upgraded core 2 duo @ 2.3 GHz(i think), upgraded to 4G ram ddr2/800, yes its slow with windows 10, but great for a linux box. screen is beautiful 15" great keyboard, great speakers and yes, the hinge works beatufully still

Wow, crazy seeing a laptop being so serviceable. Not sure if the trade off for super thin compact laptops is worth it honestly.

I love the upgradeability of old laptops. There is absolutely no need for these companies to solder parts in.

I had this laptop and used to play a lot of Doom 3 and CS Source on it back in the day. The best part about the cpu socket is you can do a mod to overclock your existing CPU. I put a little piece of wire in between the two pins and my 1.5ghz celeron M became a 2ghz pentium for free. Too bad the laptop got stolen though. I still miss it.

13:20 into this video, "Do you need cheese with that whine?" ha ha

BGA is hands down the worst thing to become the standard ever. bring back PGA/LGA laptop sockets

the problem you mention regarding the speed of the FSB is not due to the processor it works at the declared frequency, it is the DDR rams that work from 266 to 400 mghz, the DDR2 go from 533 to 800 etc, so the only speed limit is due only to the components supported by the device which is in this case the type of RAM supported. cpu z similar software also detect real values ​​as there is no need to make invasive changes (in some cases harmful) of the BIOS firmware As in CPU Spec its says exactli that M version support only 400 mghz FSB The revisited version ( Centrino ) support fastests RAMs like DDR2 533 mghz up

Dude this layout will blow when they do it in 2024. Every PC antusias 1000% will buy this…

Express card was awesome. It was a PCI Express slot that you could plug basically anything into. You could add USB 3.0 ports, eSATA, Firewire ports (yes Firewire was better than USB 2.0). You could add PCIe Gigabit Ethernet if the system only had 100Mb. Think of Express card as a early Thunderbolt system. If Expresscard still existed today you could plug an eGPU into it

i have the same laptop. upgraded it from a 1.4 GHz celeron M to a 2.13 GHz pentium M.

proof that laptops used to be more upgradable then they are today

My two laptops, the older one, an Acer Extensa 5220, and the newer one, always Acer, but a gaming rig, the Nitro 5 year 2020, are an exception to the modern rule. The first, predictably since it's a legacy, I upgraded the hell out of with a new dual core CPU (a core duo T7700, I think it was, been a while, the fastest CPU supported) and 3Gb of RAM (max memory amount supported by the mobo) and an SSD. Its hinger are so stiff too, you need two hands to open it, to say. The second, though I had to open it whole (thing easy enough to do for me) since sadly it lacks fast access hatches like the majority of new laptops out there (though it seems the 2018 one still had them), I brought it to 32GB RAM and added a card SSD... only to discover a little too late it could accomodate another M1 SSD (that next year I will add too), to say it is written near the keyboard it could. It's official, I'm an idiot. So, I guess it depends on what laptop we're talking about. Muscle-bound gaming rigs still can to a degree (though I don't think my Nitro 5 can have a CPU upgrade, it's already an i7 10th gen, so it's not so bad) while super-thin ones... well, I guess it depends. Some still can accept memory and HD upgrade, though you must completely open them to do it, and others just sacrifice possibility of upgrade upon the altar of portability or builder choice.

Usual thermal paste is liquid. Firstly, liquid thermal paste quickly crawls out to the sides due to constant heating and cooling of the processor, which worsens cooling over time. Secondly, such a hard layer of thermal paste protects the corners of the chip from chipping. If you change the thermal paste completely, then you can rinse the radiator under water and dry it, it's fast and qualitatively.

Literally five seconds into the runtime: Framework and any laptop from the early 1990s would like to have a paragraph with you.

I saw your laptop service tag number, and I'm gonna steal it :D

I got an old toshiba laptop from vista era, put an ssd, installed bodhi linux and it works great. Dual core intel cpu, 3 gigs ram, the screen is a bit s*it 15" tft panel. it was incredibly laggy when I first started it, and as soon as I removed the depleted battery it worked like a charm. The chip in the battery was somehow halting the whole system, later I scooped the cells out and put in the empty shell because one of the rubber legs was on the battery. It's a great laptop for dosbox and exploring linux OS, I only wish it had a better IPS screen, maybe I'll replace it, I've seen it can be done. It's a pretty sturdy laptop, built like a tank unlike these modern laptops. I need to replace cmos battery, and for that I have to disassemble the whole thing, and it's a weld on battery unfortunately, but I can live without the battery for now.

King of upgrades IMO is still the Aspire 5720G. Replaceable battery, RAM, HDD, ODD, CPU, GPU (MXM standard), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, plus an extra Mini-PCIE full-size slot for upgrades. And no vendor locks in BIOS either - would boot right up with an HP workstation GPU and a Dell wireless-N card, both manufactured long after the 5720G was out of production. Unfortunately the originally included GPUs were huge duds (affected by NVIDIA Bumpgate), but that also meant a constant supply of cheap, easily fixable 5720Gs with failed GPUs on the market, sold by people who didn't know better. EDIT: And I almost forget, the _display panel_ could also be upgraded to 1920x1200 (from the stock 1280x800), although it required swapping the display cable for one taken from an Aspire 7720G. There were also CCFL->LED conversion kits on the market.

Big companies just progress towards changing rules more and more in their favor Like paying a subscription for something you own. Like heated seats Making people work longer, profit more, take more advantage Nowadays some companies are more powerful than government

Yeah when I opened my laptop years back and realized it was literally a socket, I was kind of annoyed that I bought the 2nd fastest chip on the platform. I could’ve bought the i3 version for cheaper and then bought the i7 extreme or whatever it is. It’s crazy how powerful the top end mobile CPUs used to be. My 4800mq is still barely slower than my modern ryzen chip. I used to be able to overclock on my laptop, but after updating it one day that functionality went away and I wasn’t able to revert back to previous settings. Idk why I can’t fix this, but back when I could overclock, sure it was hot, but I could set it at 4ghz and it was basically just as fast as a ryzen 2000 or a 7th-8th gen Intel chip. The speed of this cheap cpu is so astounding that I’ve actually been looking for an industrial or diagnostic motherboard that I could plop it into and use outside of a laptop. With good cooling this thing would be a monster. Paired with a decent gpu, it would be an incredible gaming pc. The Radeon graphics leave much to be desired.

Clevo and Sager laptops still use desktop CPU's and feature unlocked bios and GPU cards that can all be upgraded.

Back when dell cared about repairability and longevity

Put an ssd on it it will boost the performance much mostly on such low system, also remove the DVD roon, and install a second like an optane disk used to boost startup and paging

The size of the CPU cooler usually means that you probably won't be able to use the most powerful CPU available or the CPU will overheat.

I mean with how chunky, even the highest-end gaming and performance laptops are, we need to bring back a solution to component expansion.

I think the cpu socket is available on laptop until the m series intel gen4 with intel hd4600, right?

i have this model, it still works today with Windows 11 😁😁

I have a 2 GHz Pentium M laptop with 2 2 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD. I run Q4OS with the Trinity desktop. There are command line utilities for KZfaq and Spotify.

my laptop is pretty easy to upgrade. its an old cyberpower custom laptop that used to be my main gaming pc. its 8 screws then the whole bottom comes off then 8 more screws for the cpu/gpu heatsinks and you have access to the cpu thats socketed and the gpu thats one of those wierd minicards form faction was mcx or something like that

Ive kept my Laptops thatcan be upgraded. I have a few now but theyre pretty useless for anything other than web browsing etc . Dell Studio line were great for upgrading . I have a 1735 if mem serves me and i can upgrade everything, memory, GPU, wifi, Bluetooth, HDDs x2 or more and even the CPU could be replaced/upgraded. Dell was great for that back in the day, I even have an old Xp machine that you can upgrade pretty much everything on too. Ah the good ol days, how i miss them .

I think it is up to generation 3 or 4 on Intel laptops that some of the laptop brands allowed CPU changes. After that, they decided to waste their money and solder the cpu to the board.

I still have the same model and it still works, although I did not know that I could upgrade the cpu. I'll definitely upgrade the cpu, it seems like a cool project

Thanks for video playback support .

Old Laptops are literally portable pc, they are more interesting than today's laptops.

I upgraded my old eMachines e525 with 2-core CPU, more RAM and SSD, and it's become pretty mush usable even with windows 10, everything works just fine, which made me wonder honestly. It really feels like decent laptop capable to do some work even today. Didn't expect that from 2010 laptop, more than 10 years in use. With new battery it's works almost like new, exept from display. It's very obvious old tech LCD which really looks old and bad by modern standarts, have very low brightness and overall image quality.

This is how technology could have been easy to fix in the future but instead it's gonna be rented tech to reduce waste 😣

Why in the world would companies nowadays make laptops less upgradable....I wanted to upgrade my laptop but watching all of these and doing some other reseaech its just best ti get a new one....I can't believe this honestly I'd be so happy if I could do this.

I remember people buying laptop cpu's for their desktop as some of them were really good for overclocking.

Maybe that’s because the upgrade of the CPU may decreases the selling of more advanced models or newer models. And it would increase the cost and makes laptops much thicker which would also makes the laptop much harder to sell. In fact most of users won’t upgrade their laptops.

The Sager NP8180 with a 2960xm and dual 6990ms was super super easy to upgrade literally 3 screws to reach all the parts and 4 screws for each part and you are done. A repaste takes exactly 5 mins for the 2 GPUs and CPU

Technically , most laptops were upgradeable up i Core 3rd gen aka Ivy Bridge , it all depended on mobile chipset. You could for example upgrade Intel HM-65 chipset to use i7 3632QM , but BIOS microcode editing is needed. And 3rd gen was the last gen that used socketed CPU. As for modern ones , depending on user budget , most still support RAM & SSD upgrades and some even have 2 SSD NVME slots. Depending on mamufacturer and model , some still sport M.2 WiFi and Bluetooth cards , tho , involment in reaching these , if they're not gaming laptops is significantly harder. Also - card readers. MicroSD card readers are not always present nor are the separate channels for headphones and mic. Port count and selection also decreased. Also , user replaceable battery packs that used to be outside , held by one or two latches has dissapeared too , now most people if they are not a bit skilled , need to open laptop to pull out old battery and put new one , without ripping and damaging ribbon cables and connectors and accidentally killing motherboard in process.

My 2012~13 Latitude is quite similar, 5 screws and you open the hole bottom, RAM, HDD, CPU, and evan 3 mSATA, 2 of wich actually are mPCIe. Quite upgradable and powerful, full of slots, just take a look on the specs and you gonna be surprised, Latitude E6430

Man, I miss these kinds of laptops

The Dell Latitude 120L has the exact same design btw

this is why i'm sticking with old models. Specially on phones, every year they remove even more ports just for selling us dongles and predatory subscriptions. The used market is the best market.

The environmental damage impact for a non-upgradeable laptop should be huge.

Best cheap, upgradable laptop is the HP ProBook 4440s I'm typing this on. Started life with a Celeron as a student loaner laptop. Whole bottom pops off hitting battery latches a second time. Six screws later its a 2nd-gen Core i7 with SSD.

considering the size of the heatsink, I can see why low end laptops were the only ones that can change CPUs. but yeah, they should return Laptops with upgradable CPUs. I understand that business oriented laptops needs to be slim but gaming laptops should have the option to have removeable CPUs since portability isn't really their thing considering how bulky and heavy they are and on that note, why do they even exist. They aren't exactly portable since they usually need to be plugged in to a power source.

Improve the CPU, RAM and I changed the HDD for an SSD. i swapped the 32 bit cpu for a 64 bit one and the laptop came back to life. It's an Acer 5670 from 2007.

@NTG Technology Are you still looking for a case for the windows xp rig ? Could be worth keeping a lookout after the " nexus prominent 9 " orignially released around 2011. It's a bit heavy case at just around 9 kg but i still use it since i bought it cheap in 2014. Using it without one of the sidepanels on due too the tight space it's sitting in the cubby is almost like a sidepanel anyway while restricting top airflow a bit as well. But should be more then enough cooling for a Core 2 Extreme & SLI 8800 GTX's being made in the era of the GTX 480 & GTX 590. Current setup of my main pc is that case housing a I5 2500k @ 4.4 ghz, 16 gb ram @ 1600 mhz via 4x4 configuration & gtx 1660 super that I've had for a bit less then 2 years. Gonna be 2 years around October 4th or 6th i think is when i picked the 1660 super up. Got it at a bargain 2335 sek or 223$ as an open box return like a week or two before prices skyrocketed on graphics cards, glad i went for that honestly. Or i would have been stuck with my old hd 6870 or hd 5770. It was returned because of the shuddering noise on the fans going from passive too actively cooled on the fan profile, thats the only thing wrong & its likely gone now because I've kept using the card. Literally a 5 minute fix making my own fan profile & 0 issues with the card outside of old game compatibility messing up with the higher vram limit at 6 gb but eh i got other pcs i can play those games on if Dgvoodoo2 or Nglide doesn't help fixing those issues besides community patches, talking like 20+ year old games here like Need For Speed Porsche 2000. For windows xp i got a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop here released around mid 2005. So 2.5 ide hdd unfortunately on this particular model but a dedicated ati x300 gpu using ram as vram, 2 gb ddr2 ram 533 mhz sticks that runs at 400 mhz just fine. Using a 90w charger the laptop complains about & limits cpu power too 600 mhz normally. But i can get around that with crystalcpuid forcing the cpu too 1.5 ghz again while slightly undervolting the cpu as well. Pentium m @ 1.5 ghz which depending on what i play on here is more then enough for the built in 1280x800 display. HDD was replaced not too long ago with a 60 gb from a dead apple g4 powerbook i think it was. That powerbook has been junked for like 3 years by now after i tore it down, was some late spec model a year or two before apple went with intel core 2 duo's, cpu was a powerpc 667 mhz, 2x 128 mb ram sticks for 256 mb & the optional 60 gb hdd.

I installed a Pentium M 770 in my Inspiron B130 and I might be getting a Sound Blaster X-FI Notebook. The laptop is even running the factory install of Windows XP Home Edition.

So that's what it looks like under my Inspiron 1300's CPU heatsink. I've taken the cover off to dust heatsink a few times