Help with upgrade - would this be possible?

[iamspeedcubing]

1. So I recentley found an old Toshiba equium A200-196 (Specs here: http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/equium-a200-196/ ) and I decided to make it an email, document, intrernet and / or coding machine. I decided to slap on puppy linux, but found out that the optical drive is broken. As Im soon to replace it, I decided to do a few other upgrades, mainly the RAM to 2gb, the battery, the storage and, ( although I know that this is not usually done on laptops), the cpu. Why? Because of this: https://forum.toshiba.eu/showthread.php?53727-Equium-A200-1V0-Upgrading-the-CPU

2. The creator claims that he supposedly has a '6 times faster ' machine now. i want to know if this is possible on my old laptop, and if so, what cpu should I pick that would be compatible with my bios, socket, chipset and everything else it should be compatible with, as well as the cpu not overheating. What could I use? It'd be great if some light, undemanding games would be playable too (minecraft, etc. ) but i do understand if its not possible.

3. Also, does anybody know what the storage limit would be on this laptop? What battery could I put in, as in, would it support a larger battery?

Any help appreciated, especially with the cpu. Thanks!

 

[koreanoverlord]

It would be a better investment to just a second hand laptop for cheap.

Since you are running Puppy Linux, anything modern will handle it with ease.

I would also recommend looking at low end Chromebooks (with an x86 platform), they have killer battery life and you can run Linux inside crouton without much effort at all. And you will have the speed of Native ChromeOS for when you just need a snappy machine for web browsing.

 

[iamspeedcubing]

I'm not in the situation that i can really buy much as I just spent wayy too much on a pc, just don't want this to go to waste and to have a portable machine for emails, finishing off documents etc. , yet am willing to spend a few bucks to get this usable. do you know some answers to the original questions? Please help.

 

[iamspeedcubing]

Would it even be possible?

 

[iamspeedcubing]

What would be compatible? Please help

 

[iamspeedcubing]

Would the T2450 work? Seems like it should but i dont know.

 

[rgd1101]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from iamspeedcubing : "Upgrades for Toshiba Equium A200 196"

1. So I recentley found an old Toshiba equium A200-196 (Specs here: http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/equium-a... ) and I decided to make it an email, document, intrernet and / or coding machine. I decided to slap on puppy linux, but found out that the optical drive is broken. As Im soon to replace it, I decided to do a few other upgrades, mainly the RAM to 2gb, the battery, the storage and, ( although I know that this is not usually done on laptops), the cpu. Why? Because of this: https://forum.toshiba.eu/showthread.php?53727-Equium-A2...

2. The creator claims that he supposedly has a '6 times faster ' machine now. i want to know if this is possible on my old laptop, and if so, what cpu should I pick that would be compatible with my bios, socket, chipset and everything else it should be compatible with, as well as the cpu not overheating. What could I use? It'd be great if some light, undemanding games would be playable too (minecraft, etc. ) but i do understand if its not possible.

3. Also, does anybody know what the storage limit would be on this laptop? What battery could I put in, as in, would it support a larger battery?

Any help appreciated, especially with the cpu. Thanks!

 

[rgd1101]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from iamspeedcubing : "Help with upgrade - would this be possible?"

1. So I recentley found an old Toshiba equium A200-196 (Specs here: http://www.toshiba.co.uk/discontinued-products/equium-a200-196/ ) and I decided to make it an email, document, intrernet and / or coding machine. I decided to slap on puppy linux, but found out that the optical drive is broken. As Im soon to replace it, I decided to do a few other upgrades, mainly the RAM to 2gb, the battery, the storage and, ( although I know that this is not usually done on laptops), the cpu. Why? Because of this: https://forum.toshiba.eu/showthread.php?53727-Equium-A200-1V0-Upgrading-the-CPU

2. The creator claims that he supposedly has a '6 times faster ' machine now. i want to know if this is possible on my old laptop, and if so, what cpu should I pick that would be compatible with my bios, socket, chipset and everything else it should be compatible with, as well as the cpu not overheating. What could I use? It'd be great if some light, undemanding games would be playable too (minecraft, etc. ) but i do understand if its not possible.

3. Also, does anybody know what the storage limit would be on this laptop? What battery could I put in, as in, would it support a larger battery?

Any help appreciated, especially with the cpu. Thanks!