Help with laptop customization?

michaelwang_99 · Mar 11, 2013

I am planning to buy an extremely cheap laptop and upgrading it. I do not want to just buy a good laptop. I want a cheap one and I will upgrade it so performance is optimal. I want to upgrade the processor, RAM, and graphics if possible. Here is the laptop I had my eye on.

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/acer-acer-aspire-v3-17-3-laptop-iron-intel-pentium-b960-500gb-hdd-4gb-ram-windows-8-v3-731-4470/10223558.aspx

Thanks in advance,
Michael

P.S: Try and spend less than $500 for upgrading.

unksol · Mar 11, 2013

You can't upgrade the CPU or GPU in hardly any laptops. They are almost always soldered to the board, and the cooling design is for that hardware config. The ones you can upgrade are EXPENSIVE, the upgrade parts are EXPENSIVE and VERY limited part choices.

If you want a laptop you buy it with the parts/performance you want and expect it to be completely outdated in a few years.

You want to upgrade or have long system life and good performance at a sane price then you need a desktop.

J_E_D_70 · Mar 11, 2013

There's no upgrading that one. If you want to choose components you need to go to a website like Sager and build one there. You can choose components but they put it together and you still can't upgrade it later.

michaelwang_99 · Mar 12, 2013

Can you find a laptop that is up-gradable. I know that it is more expensive than buying a laptop, but I just want the experience of doing it. The laptop itself should be less that $500

mikerockett · Mar 12, 2013

Thats not going to happen, you won't find an upgradable laptop for that price. If you're lucky one that you can change the RAM and the HDD, thats about it.

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