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lovingnatureguy

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Hello Friends,i want to buy best performance laptop who supports SSD Or Pcie SSD.It must be Upgradable(CPU).My budget is about 850 US Dollars.Please Help Me.
 
Generally speaking, practically all modern laptop have CPUs that are soldered into the motherboard. The trend basically started when Intel released their 3rd generation Ivy Bridge CPUs when only "u" model and some "m" model CPUs were soldered into the motherboard.

If you do not mind pre-ordering an $800 laptop, then you can buy the Dell Inspiron i7559 which has a 6th generation quad core i5-6300HQ CPU and a GTX 960m GPU. No specific shipping date is mentioned. In that price range you usually get a dual core i5-5200u CPU with a GTX 950m GPU.


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The only socketed (upgradable) laptop (mobile) Intel CPUs are the i7 models ending in MQ. They are generally only found in gaming laptops, and far, far above your price range.

Is there a particular reason you want the CPU to be upgradeable? Ever since we hit the thermal frequency limit around 2005, CPUs haven't sped up that much. Most of Intel's and AMD's R&D has been towards getting more instructions done simultaneously (e.g. hyperthreading), adding more cores, and reducing power consumption. For example, at the same clock speed, Skylake is only about 25%-40% faster than Sandy Bridge, despite 5 years having passed. In the 1990s, CPUs doubled in speed every 1.5-2 years. Most of the advancements have been in reducing power consumption. Skylake uses about 1/3rd the power of Sandy Bridge.

This has led to a curious phenomenon where newer versions of software run better on older hardware. For example, Windows 10 runs better than Windows 8, which runs better than Windows 7 on old hardware. What's happening is the software makers can't add features, while relying on the speedup of CPUs to compensate for the feature making the software run slower. Consequently, they've been putting more effort into optimizing their software to run more efficiently. The result being that newer software runs better on older hardware than software which was contemporary to that hardware when it was new.

So bottom line is, barring any huge technological breakthroughs, any mid- or hi-end computer you buy today should continue to run "modern" software for 5-10 years. And you shouldn't need to upgrade your CPU.
 
In addition to that, new CPUs may use more energy and put pot more heat than old CPUs, so you will be hitting your thermal limit. The thermal and power envelopes for laptops is very tight.

What do you want to use the laptop for?
The HDD on any laptop can be replaced with a SSD.
 


That actually changed with Skylake generation CPUs. All mobile Core i7-6xxx with the "HQ" designations are socket "BGA" meaning they are soldered into the motherboard.
 


Whoops, I got HQ and MQ mixed up. MQ is socketed, HQ is soldered. Editing the original. Thanks for the correction.