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by Night_Thastus 770 days ago
On a laptop it's not very practical.

Because you can't swap the motherboard, your options for CPUs are going to be quite limited. Generally, only higher-tier CPUs of that same generation - which draw more power and require more cooling.

Generally a laptop is built designed to provide a specific budget of power to the CPU and has a limited amount of cooling.

Even if you could swap out the CPU, it wouldn't work properly if the laptop couldn't provide the necessary power or cooling.
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farmdve 770 days ago
I can't say I agree. Back in 2014 a laptop was purchased with a dual-core haswell CPU. 8 years later I revive the laptop by upgrading the CPU to almost the best possible CPU, which is a 4-core 8 thread CPU or 4-core 4 threads, I am unsure which of these it was, but the speed boost was massive. This is how you keep old tech alive.

And the good thing about mobile CPUs is that they have almost the same TDP across the various dual-quad versions(or whatever is the norm today).

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Rohansi 769 days ago
How old was the new CPU though? Probably the same or similar generation to what it originally came with since the socket needs to be the same.

IMO the switch to an SSD would have been the biggest boost.

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farmdve 769 days ago
Same gen but with 2 more cores + Hyperthreading
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yencabulator 769 days ago
> On a laptop it's not very practical.

> Because you can't swap the motherboard,

https://frame.work/ has entered the chat.

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