Now none of the major laptop manufacturers, including Dell, Alienware, HP, Acer, Asus, allow it. As a result, it's rare to find a laptop that will allow you to upgrade its CPU.

I have a an HP Notebook thats a 1.133 Celeron. Specificly a ZT1130. It does ok, but it could be faster- What CPU fits in this socket?Can I upgrade at all?

Just how upgradeable is it? Well, to prove its point, the company is now selling a CPU upgrade to Intel’s latest 12th-gen processors, which are now available for pre-order.

With the upgrade to the Intel 12th-gen Mainboard, Framework's vision for upgradable laptops is being realized.

I have several ML110 G6 servers with the X3430 Xeon Cpu in, which has no Hyperthreading. It would be nice to upgrade the CPU's to the Xeons that have HT, instead of moving over to the new G7 boxes.

The HP Laptop 17 (starts at $499.99; $649.99 as tested) is a budget-minded system with (in our test unit) an AMD Ryzen 5 5625U CPU, a processor that can handle daily school or home-office tasks ...