very old thinkpad 600e cpu upgrade question
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Hi everybody
recently some friend of mine gave me an old thinkpad 600e, wich uses a PII 300 mobile. Although i've got another laptop (Turion), I have to say that old piece of stuff looks like it could survive a nuclear attack (which can't be said about my acer turion 
)So, if you forgive the long introduction, here is my question: Could I upgrade it with a mmc2 PIII 500 I've seen on ebay? It's supposed to work perfectly on an 600x, wich is the next model, and shares a lot of components with my model. Does it worth considering all I want to do with it is working with office? Thank you all
From my experience with IBM laptops, it is worth a try, but:
- first, make yourself comfortable with removing your present CPU: if you can't remove it easily, you won't be able to replace it anyway
- check that you won't need any special thermal compound to stick the cooler back on the cpu
- ensure that it is a 440BX chipset you have, otherwise getting a 500MHz cpu will be useless (if you have a ZX chip on your granny laptop, you're out)
- I would guess that the price of the replacement mmu would be quite small. Get it and try: if you can get the system to boot, you're a winner. If not, you've just set yourself a few bucks back... on a free laptop 
While IBM series usually follow very close hardware specifications, changing the cpu is not that easy.
