I've been given an older Compaq Presario 1710TW laptop that has a removeable ZIF CPU. The current CPU is a PIII 1.0 GHz which is only an SSE CPU and won't run OS X. I'd like to upgrade the CPU to an SSE2 so that I could run OS X, but I'm ignorant of Intel CPUs and don't know if there is a compatible SSE2 CPU available? Can anyone help?

Thanks! Jack

I'm also a rook at this so I'm not sure but everything I've read said you should be trying to get SSE3 cuz SSE2 doesn't run all the programs for OS X.

I've also got a Compaq N610c 1.8 GHz P4 that's SSE2 only, it's running 10.4.8 pretty stable so far, good enough. I don't know what the 1st SSE3 CPU was, but I'm almost certain it won't work in such an old laptop. The slowest CPU I see that's SSE2 is a P4 that's 1.3 GHz, which is faster than my 1 GHz, but I don't know if it works as a replacement for a P3?