Netbook upgrade

thanks , i was thinking of changing the processor from Atom to I7( i found online for 250) do you think its possible and would it help the general processing speed .what is the IGP ? thanks im a newbe .
pat

ok i do have a very very good desktop and laptop but i love the size and versatility of the netbook , so do i understand (money no object ), that i cant at all change the processor and pimp my netbook and what is a SSD (can u give me a product name and price).

You don't say which part # it is. I suspect:

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2 [...] oid=461210

SSD:

http://laptops.toshiba.com/researc [...] guides/ssd

This is big enough for netbook. Get it anywhere.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227432

Keep in mind you'll most likely void the warranty of the netbook if you upgrade it yourself. You could ask the retailer for upgrades. They'd charge a fee + price of SSD. The other good upgrade would be more memory. I think it's maxed out at 2 gigs. After both upgrades, you'd create a ram disk to cache apps & browser cookies/cache/history into memory & disable pagefile. Basically, it minimizes disk access.

The last thing to do would be to NOT shut down the netbook, but put it to sleep when the lid is closed and hibernate when you click power off button in windows & the netbook. The only reason to shut down & power on (aka reboot) is installing software/drivers and it asks for it.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007 [...] 03-server/
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/win [...] shut-down/
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/win [...] ows-vista/

If money is no object, get Macbook Air with OS X or Dell Adamo with Windows.

http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
http://www.adamobydell.com/

Well, all SSDs are 2.5" which is the same size as the HDDs in netbooks. So yeah, any SSD will fit your netbook. That's NOT a concern. The concern would be voiding warranty.

What you do after getting a SSD is:

pay a professional to install it (swap out your hdd)
pay 'em to install Windows if you don't know how (this will be tricky as many portable computers store the Windows install disk on a part of the harddisk. look up your manual on where it is and burn it to a disk with a utility in window, but I don't think you can cuz netbook doesn't have dvd burner)

If you do it yourself:

You void warranty
You may damage the netbook somehow due to inexperience
You must buy an external enclosure for the 2.5" HDD from netbook and use it as a backup drive via USB
You must copy the HDD to SSD sector by sector. It's not a task I think you can handle. Even I can screw it up. Look at toshiba.com for such utility.

I'm against do-it-youself as you sound like you will screw it up big time. Your netbook will be trash in a day.

Oh I forgot to say that even after this upgrade, youtube won't play smoothly in full screen. The graphics chipset is inherently inferior to Ion which is the best and should be the mainstream in netbooks. If your goal is to speed up youtube, forget it. It won't work. Like I said, you bought a lightweight computer and you shouldn't expect heavyweight computing.