Like I said, a short question about laptops. I have 1 Gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600, and a good amount of space. A good laptop, except one thing: the CPU, it's on 1.6MHz. The funny thing is that I can play S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Jade Empire etc, at the highest settings, even if it lags a bit.

Now, to the question: can you buy a 'normal' processor and install it onto the laptop, or do you have to order some 'special' ones?

You can't install a new processor into a laptop. You'd have to buy a new laptop if you want a new processor, I'm afraid.

Hmm, tough luck, eh? Well, you can't have everything in life can you? Otherwise it wouldn't be fun, now would it?

Oh, by the way. What is the best CPU for laptops out there in the market? I think I saw a 2.4GHz, but I don't think it's the best.

If it's a 1.6Ghz Core 2 Duo you'll be fine...

Shouldn't really do gaming on a laptop, the hardware usually can't keep up with what's needed for long. Hopefully you also have a usb mouse, and not trying to play with any of the usual mouse setups that come with laptops and usually suck for gaming. Save the laptop for work and lesser stuff, use the desktop for gaming and anything which requires the power. It'll probably be a bit cheaper too given that good laptops usually cost quite a bit.

All this is void. He's already got a laptop.

Yes, was saying instead of buying another laptop to keep up with the hardware changes, he buys a desktop which he can upgrade easier later. Then he has both.

Laptops aren't always good for gaming, they have the specs but they use something called a "Spooge Drive" which for some reason does not support most games such as Dawn of War for example...

My friends desktop thought is was a laptop once by saying it had a spooge drive

Never heard of a "Spooge Drive".

There are plenty of laptops out there that are just as good for gaming as desktops...unfortunately these are desktop replacement laptops and sort of nullify the point of getting a laptop in the first place.

I've bought a 14'' laptop recently which is actually better spec'd than my current system, minus perhaps the difference between the 7900 GTX (in my desktop) and 8600GT in the laptop.. Once I get it I'll be putting a raptor drive in my desktop then doing some 3DMark06 benchmarking.

Fun fun.

Completely wrong, since I've done exactly that. You can upgrade any part of a laptop, as long as you don't mind breaking the warranty by taking it apart. As long as you know what you're doing and can avoid breaking anything, you have only two problems:

1) Some parts are laptop specific, designed to fit inside the case. So no motherboard upgrades if it won't support your chip, that's usually a custom-designed part. The rest of the stuff should be easier, if a bit more expensive since you have to buy laptop versions (smaller, different connections, etc) of your parts. That's not brand-specific of course, laptop parts should work in any brand.

2) Even if your laptop will support a standard desktop processor, remember the cooling issues. That's the reason for special chips, a desktop chip may run too hot for the limited fans and air flow. You can still replace it, but you might be limited to buying a new laptop processor.

and what limit is there for buying a new processor? the most similar possible with the original one given with the laptop of course, I guess. I think that is the starting processor is an intel the other processor must be an intel is it?