Chad,
First, your concern I guess is not just the power but the battery as well. Okay, now here's the thing;
Though you have 965 chipset but you have not specified the motherboard model number and in order to confirm that what processors are supported on your notebook, you need to verify the exact board model of your notebook and this way you can check the compatible processors on your board. Although I don't think that your motherboard will support Core2Duo due to architectural differences however there are now MP (Multi Processor) boards that can support processors of a few different kinds such as Core2Duo, Core2Quad. As for Core2Extreme processor, it's a very high end processor specifically designed for gaming platforms and works only on a very motherboards that are compatible with it so I guess that will not be the case with your notebook since C2E processors mostly come for desktops. Plus, the consume more power and they are far more expensive.
As for the speed, you have also missed out on RAM in your notebook while mentioning the detailed specs but looking at your specific model, I guess we can't scale it over 1GB of total RAM. Remember, your computer's speed is dependent not just on RAM capacity or processors' frequency but also on other components such as motherboard, VGA, HDD (RPM), etc etc. In case you want to play games, you might want to customize your OS to get rid of unnecessary applications running on it to free up RAM and CPU utilization, check the games you run are compatible with your existing hardware. Your current notebook specs are not suitable for graphic and compute intense games since your notebook has only the on-board VGA which is not powerful enough to run heavy games on it.
Now the battery! Batteries tend to drain with passage of time and mostly because we don't practise battery saving techniques.
Charge your battery, disengage the power adaptor and let it drain till it's almost down to 10% and then recharge it, just like the way you charge your cell phone.
Also you may find these URLs of use:
http://www.friedbeef.com/2007/07/01/top-15-ways-to-extend-your-laptop-battery-life/
http://rangit.com/mobile-computing/10-easy-tweaks-for-laptop-notebook-users/
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2218
To add more to it, when your battery's life is over, you might want to practice the following technique in order to recycle/revive it and make it worthy enough of use:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/781300/revive_a_dead_laptop_battery
Remember, you can get your notebook's parts replaced and it's not at all difficult but I do not suggest that you do it without getting a little hands-on training, let the trained technicians do it for there are ESD considerations we keep in mind while working with machines.
Hope this all helps however in case you feel we are missing out on anything, feel free to write. Have a nice day!
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Warm Regards,
Javed Lodhi
Intel Go Green, Save The Environment!
i only want that my battery to be effecient...:) coz it seems that its really a battery drop out for only 2hrs or less with just only browsing net...and also i want to install some games in it but i am afraid of the results that will cause my notebook running slow just like our pc...:) but anyway, here is the general system property of my notebook... 