Can i upgrade laptop or notebook cpu?

I know you can't upgrade laptop video cards, by the way i have a 256mb 8400m gs so give your opinion on that.

But is it possible to upgrade your cpu, i have a intel centrino t5550 on a HP Pavilion dv6871us.

It has 320gb hdd, 3 gb ram ddr2, 15.4 in, vista home premium etc, it was $1050 before rebate.|||You probably can, but laptops require very specialized tools. Their motherboards are [usually] designed from scratch (basically), and they are designed to work with a certain processor (memory speed, Bus size, battery, heating, etc.).



Heating mostly, I would think.



I would guess yes, but I would recommend no.|||Hi



Almost definitely not. Laptops/ notebooks are made in such a way it is usually a case of being able to access the RAM modules and the hard drive.



If you've bought it recently, the retailer may allow you to swap it for another model/ alternatively HP might give you the opportunity to trade it in for a faster variant.



As a friend of mine keeps telling me, "if you don't ask, you don't get!"



HTH,



Deep





** UPDATE **

Having looked at the user manual for this model, I can confirm this is the case. You cannot upgrade the CPU.|||Some (many) laptops have socketted processors. That said, the processor installed is designed to run with the support components on the MB and vice versa. That is, while you might try to bump up the speed of the processor the system's other processors (that cannot be replaced--at least not easily) might not work at all with an upgraded processor or the system might very well be unstable beyond use.|||upgrade to what processor? basically depends on that. If your motherboard is comatible for the new CPU you are aiming at, then you can. Otherwise...oops...no.