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In theory, as long as the upgrade cpu is the same socket type (PGA988), then yes; however, in practice, I can't find any mobile i5's, only one's already installed in machines. Granted, I didn't do much digging, but even if you did/could find one, Gateway would charge you an arm and most of the leg to swap the chip. May as well get the nicer chip now. I also just realized the i3 does not support Turbo Boost. IntelĀ® Coreā„¢ i3-350M Processor (3M Cache, 2.26 GHz) with SPEC Code(s) SLBPK, SLBPL
lol, and yeah, sorry about hi-jacking your thread. :)