Can I upgrade the Series 7 to a netBook?
Not officially and there is no upgrade service from Psion however users who have bought both a netBook and Series 7 have found some very surprising results when fitting a Series 7 with the ROM board of a netBook. When the Series 7 is rebooted (All batteries must be removed before the swap) a netBook screen appears ready to load an OS. By inserting the CF card containing the netBook OS image the Series 7 loads it and you’re left with a fully working netBook sporting a Series 7 badge! Looking at the machine information from the System screen shows that it still identifies as a Series 7 however the CPU is now running at 191.692MHz instead of 132.71Mhz and this is not simply wrong information being read from the netBook ROM board. Software now runs notably faster and information sent to this site suggests that Psion use the same 190Mhz SA1100 processor when manufacturing both the Series 7 and netBook because it’s cheaper than having two sets of chips and machinery to fit them (Even though
