Dell Latitude c610

[ablahanky]

I own a Dell Latitude c610 and I really want to upgrade it I have some ideas already but I wanted a second opinion

[Electronics Wizardy]

what do you want to upgrade? That thing is ancient.

[ablahanky]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what do you want to upgrade? That thing is ancient.

Well at least I wanna put an ssd in it and up the battery life but it has a lot of expansion ports and I know a few ways to push it further the dream is to get the sticking station for it as well but it's like 300 dollars unfortunately

[ZcanKal]

That thing has to be from between 1999 and 2001, even a desktop of that time is essentially un-upgradable. (It would be Pre-LGA775 and pre-PCIe, which were released in mid-2002 and 2004 respectively. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, ablahanky said:

Well at least I wanna put an ssd in it and up the battery life but it has a lot of expansion ports and I know a few ways to push it further the dream is to get the sticking station for it as well but it's like 300 dollars unfortunately

Look at surplus stores, I have seen those docking stations for %5

 

You can get ide ssds. https://www.amazon.com/Zheino-128gb-128GB-44pins-Laptop/dp/B00R2F9AYI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1540950889&sr=8-5&keywords=ide+ssd

 

Not great, but much better than any hdd

 

Battery will be a pain, best hope is to take apart the pack and put new cells in, I don't think anyone is making a new battery, and one from that age will be degraded.

[ablahanky]

1 minute ago, ZcanKal said:

That thing has to be from between 1999 and 2001, even a desktop of that time is essentially un-upgradable.

Yah I just wanna do it for fun and I found a few workarounds I already had it running emulators and stuff without upgrades the biggest problem is the hdd slowed down so much over the years and the batteries can't really retain a charge

[ablahanky]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Look at surplus stores, I have seen those docking stations for %5

 

You can get ide ssds. https://www.amazon.com/Zheino-128gb-128GB-44pins-Laptop/dp/B00R2F9AYI/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1540950889&sr=8-5&keywords=ide+ssd

 

Not great, but much better than any hdd

 

Battery will be a pain, best hope is to take apart the pack and put new cells in, I don't think anyone is making a new battery, and one from that age will be degraded.

Yah I was thinking an ide or an adapter to use a sata one although IDK if that would even provide an improvement

[ablahanky]

Iirc the drive bays can be used for battery packs Dell made there are also two so potentially raid ssds my personal preference is more battery life especially since I hate using the adapter lol it also has two pc card slots and a pci mini slot I thought of adding a gpu but the best pci mini gpu I found was actually worse than the on board graphics