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i just bout a new laptop being shipped as i we speak

the specs are:

 

PRODUCT DETAILS

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Model name 8922A1U

Description Lenovo 3000 C200

 

Processor Intel® Celeron® M Processor 430 (1.73GHz, 1MBL2, 533MHzFSB)

 

Operating system Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic

 

Display type 15.0 inch XGA TFT (1024x768)

 

System graphics Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950

 

Total memory 512MB PC2-5300DDR2 SDRAM

 

Hard drive 80GB, 5400rpm Serial ATA

 

Optical device 8X Max DVD Recordable (Dual Layer) PATA Fixed Media Bay drive

 

Wireless cards Lenovo 11b/g Wi-Fi wireless

 

Weight 6.13lbs

 

Battery 6 Cell Lithium-Ion Battery

 

 

 

total cost was $327 after tax and shipping was it a good buy?

also how will it run osx?

and last quetion im thinking i might throw a core2 i there anyone know what socket in the Lenovo 3000 C200

is it 479 or soceket M?

 

thanks guys

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I thought the C200 used G945, which support CD/C2D fine. I doubt they'd make a mobo with a 940 for this one variant they sell with a Celly...

 

As for BIOS limitations, I bet the BIOS is the same as for the other variants. I stuck a Celeron-M in a G945 machine that originally had a C2D and it worked fine, so I presume the reverse is also true, so long as it doesn't use the single core-restriced 940 chipset.

 

At the OP: It's Socket M, which is what almost all FSB533/667 Celeron M/Core Duo/Core 2 Duo CPUs use (basically anything with a 945 chipset.)

 

There are some 667MHz T5xxx variants for Socket P, which is what Santa Rosa (965) notebooks use, however, so watch out.

i know it should be upgradable mine is the 8922A1U which has a celeron, but higher end lenovo 3000 c200's have a core2.

i found the service manual but it had diagrams on removing the cpu but no socket number

so i called lenovo and the guy said 479 i asked where could i find the document to confirm it and he said he did a google search and the celeron m 430 is only for socket 479

i knew that was going nowhere so i said thanks and hung up

but i looked later and this is the socket m version LF80538NE0301M

and if you search you can see the socket 479

so i dont know whether there is misinformation but so far it looks to be socket 479 or socket m

 

but thanks to Azurael i have some slight confirmation its not 479 and is socket m can anyone confirm?

All Intel mobile sockets have 479 pins, going right back to the days of Mobile P-IIIs and are referred to, somewhat consusingly as 'Socket 479' in many cases.

 

The last two 'Socket 479s', called Socket M and Socket P vary only in a single keying pin. The previous socket, used for Pentium Ms has a totally different pinout, as did the one before the for Mobile P4-Ms and the one before that for Mobile PIII.

 

That said, I can assure you for a fact that it's a Socket M, so long as the CPU is not soldered to the motherboard (unlikely in this case.) Because all Mobile 945 chipsets use Socket M in the same way that all mobile 965 chipsets use Socket P.

Yeah, it's annoying how they changed the socket.

 

When they switched from 855 to 915 chipsets and 400 to 533MT/s FSBs on the Pentium-Ms, they kept the socket the same, but people found that if you put one of the old 400MT/s Pentium Ms in a notebook with the new chipset and stuck a wire in the socket to fool it into thinking if was a 533MT/s CPU, it would run at the same multiplier as before, but on the new FSB speed; a free 33% overclock. I guess they changed the keying pin for Santa Rosa just to prevent that possibility.

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