Gury Hwa has posted on his blog showing owners of Celeron-enabled (or disabled :P) Asus Eee PCs that you can swap out your shoddy CPU for a better model.
For a mere $30 Gury grabbed a 1.2GHz ULV Pentium M 753 processor to replace his 900MHz Celeron 353. The CPU was deemed suitable by using MMTool to figure out what CPUs the bios could support - the faster processor uses only an additional 0.5W in power, making it a near perfect upgrade.
As predicted the bios picked up on the new CPU straight away and identified it correctly. However, the CPU only ran at 840MHz, no surprise as the stock Celeron is even underclocked by default to reduce power drain and heat output. Using one of the many overclocking utilities available for the Eee you can clock up to full speed @ 1.2GHz.
Unfortunately the post isn't exactly a how-to guide with Gury only stating that the soldering is 'complicated'. I think this mod is reserved for those who know WTH they are doing, but full credit to Gury all the same!
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