Sabah Notebooks

I had a few laptops that my children used for the college. I nearly wanted to dispose of them a few years ago. Luckily I got the upgrading bug and start researching the costs. The prices of CPUs and RAM has gone down a lot that it is worthwhile to upgrade. 5 years ago, the DDR2 SODIMM RAM was too high. RM200 for 2Gbyte that it was not worth upgrading. Now, its price is RM30(US7) only. CPU prices have dropped a lot also. I bought my T8300 for US4, in Sep 2017. A few days ago, I bought a T9550 for US7. This C700 is faster than my office's desktop PC with i3 and 8Gbyte but only 3 useable.

Although the title of this blog is for Notebooks, they are desinged for small portable PCs, but recently, I start delving into larger Notebooks that are better called Laptops because they are much bigger than pieces of paper. Bigger Laptops have the ability to use faster CPUs , GPUs and more memories, because they can be cooled better, but they are usually more expensive and heavier. The smaller notebooks such as Macbook Airs can cost much more but pricewise, they will never beat the monster workstations like HP Zbook 17 and Dell Precsion 17 workstations, because they can be equipped with the fastest but hotter CPUs and GPUs. However, the prices of these workstations have gone done in the used market so that it should be better to buy them than to buy new but less reliable notebook PCs. Of course, you must be prepared to upgrade these old Laptops and Notebooks with the fastest CPU that they can support. Recently, I experimented with upgrading old Laptops with faster CPUs for ...