A:AnswerI suggest you make a call to Bestbuy and speak to someone. I want to say they can, but I'm not entirely sure. Calls are free, appointments are free, so there's nothing stopping you from asking them directly
A:AnswerAlmost entirely sure this is a no. Geek squad may be able to actually install something for you but the likelihood they can do a cpu upgrade and guarantee it working is next to nill. The reason why is unlike desktops, laptop cpus are integrated into mobo so you can not just upgrade the cpu. You have to find the same compatible mobo for your model with the upgraded cpu integrated into that mobo and have geek squad to that mobo install and hope all your other components that get installed including gpu, storage, memory and wifi are compatible. More likely than not gpu, memory, battery, ports and/or wifi card will also be integrated so original hardware more or less may not be compatible heck even monitor or keyboard may have issues and it takes a good deal of research to get the right mobo compatible as the same laptop company makes many models you buy one for another model it may not fit into case or screws as mobos for laptops are no standard size. If you get lucky to find a compatible one it surely will be expensive 600-800+ and that is before geek squad charges you an arm and a leg to install a new motherboard. Upgrading memory, storage and wifi card are usually easy but cpu usually not. They don't usually have non integrated cpus as that takes a lot of space, same with gpus.
A:AnswerIf it is soldered it is unremovable, so cpu can not be removed from mobo and you can not install another cpu as the mobo won't have a socket to support it. Anything soldered and removed is connected via the solder removing that does not reveal a socket just breaks it.
Only solution is to provide a mobo and cpu and those have to be the same custom made mobo and cpu your laptop model supports almost always will be the same one installed. Will be too expensive and 99% of the time will have incompatibility issues with current existing hardware.
Long story short no.
