The only upgrade you have is T7600, which is so small an increase that it's not worth the cost or effort. No, there are no quad core options for this system.
Your best performance upgrade option is to swap out the disk for an SDD. I replaced mine with the Samsung 840 (MZ-7TD250KW).
The performance boost has been amazing, boots in less then 30 seconds, and everything else is super responsive. Supposedly the software that came with the SDD had the capability to mirror the drives so you would then just swap in the new drive and everything would be in place. I couldn't get that to work on my system.
I've been using PCs since the late 70s when they came in a kit and had 4K memory. The M2010 is by far the best machine I've owned. I went through a rash of warranty repair on it - bad motherboard, bad video card, etc. But it's been stable for a while. Hope it holds together for another year.
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August 10th, 2013 04:00
The only upgrade you have is T7600, which is so small an increase that it's not worth the cost or effort. No, there are no quad core options for this system.
There is no video upgrade option.
The existing CPU is EM64T-supportive.
Max RAM is 2x2 or 4G.
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August 16th, 2013 05:00
Your best performance upgrade option is to swap out the disk for an SDD. I replaced mine with the Samsung 840 (MZ-7TD250KW).
The performance boost has been amazing, boots in less then 30 seconds, and everything else is super responsive. Supposedly the software that came with the SDD had the capability to mirror the drives so you would then just swap in the new drive and everything would be in place. I couldn't get that to work on my system.
I've been using PCs since the late 70s when they came in a kit and had 4K memory. The M2010 is by far the best machine I've owned. I went through a rash of warranty repair on it - bad motherboard, bad video card, etc. But it's been stable for a while. Hope it holds together for another year.