As some may know I have an older laptop, A Dell Latitude D600.

Now its about 8 Years old approx but still works rather well even with its few design flaws, Is it odd of me to always want to improve this old laptop. now I never had it from new and this is an ex company machine I bought second hand. but ive been finding outside of gaming its been rather great for most things.

Since getting it I have upgraded many aspects of the laptop and do plot on upgrading more to it.

When I got it the specs was (ill just mention what I had upgraded)

Intel Pentium M 1.6Ghz 1MB L2 Cache 400FSB
1GB DDR1 Ram
40GB Hitachi 5400RPM HDD
Intel Wireless B Card

I Upped this with some being what I had around here (Marked with a *)

Intel Pentium M 1.7Ghz 2MB L2 Cache 400FSB
1.5GB DDR1 Ram *
120GB Samsung 5400RPM HDD *
Dell 1470 Wireless A/B/G Card *

I Had been considering Doing a few more upgrades, now i Have Switched out the Original CPU Cooling System which was Steel and Aluminum for a Copper and Aluminum set and Repasted the Chipset, ATi 9000 and CPU with some Nice Equivilent to Arctic Silver 5 Paste which did seem to help alot with temps allowing for some software over clocking (CPU 1.88Ghz and GPU is up about 15%)



Now since I've been doing this rather slow and selling any older parts on ebay to help cover the cost of the upgrades its not been so bad on the pocket but im thinking of doing some more upgrading, maybe not to the hard drive as of yet for what I use my laptop for 120GB is rather good, but more thinking of Switching out the 512MB dimm for a 1GB, trying to find a 1.8 or even 2.0ghz CPU for the dell as well as acquiring some of the media bay addons like the Floppy Addon (for those that do not know the CD Drive is hot swappable for many other addons such as a Floppy Drive, a 2nd battery, 2nd hdd or CD/DVD/Combo/DVDRW Drive)

I've also got to get a new battery for the laptop, lol the battery just went faulty this week but after about 8 years thats damn good going it was still operating with between 40 to 50% of its charging capacity (Cells was Panasonic btw)

As it stands the laptop makes a nice xp unit that is also handy for the older games that refuse to work on Vista or 7 like for instance Might and Magic IX or even 16 Bit apps that do not work on my 64 bit desktop, Or even watching films or surfing while in bed.

But alas Im wondering what YOU guys think. Am I crazy to want to continue to upgrade such a old laptop, Would you bother too? Remember my method of upgrades is to buy the upgrade then ebay off the part Ive replaced.