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I got bought a cheap laptop yesterday (Toshiba Satellite C50-B) with very basic specs of a Celeron N2830 @2.4GHz, 4gb of ram and a 500gb hard drive. for basic office, web browsing and media consumption the specs are ok although I would have got something better if I could have but when it's an unexpected gift I can complain really..

 

Despite the specs being ok, I am thinking of upgrading it slightly and can't decide what would make more sense to go for as the first upgrade. I would love to have more ram as I could see 4gb being not enough but also an SSD would be a nice addition 

 

I already have a 60gb SSD on my desktop so would just upgrade that to an inexpensive 120gb or something and the 60gb would go in the laptop, then all I would need is a caddy to turn the unused optical bay slot into a secondary hard drive bay using the existing laptops 500gb in the process.

 

For ram the laptop only has 1 slot so adding an extra stick of 4gb is out the question but I could sell that and make some money back to go towards an 8gb stick which i the max I can have.

 

So do I go ram or SSD?

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i'd RAM it.

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I got bought a cheap laptop yesterday (Toshiba Satellite C50- B) with very basic specs of a Celeron N2830 @2.4GHz, 4gb of ram and a 500gb hard drive. for basic office, web browsing and media consumption the specs are ok although I would have got something better if I could have but when it's an unexpected gift I can complain really..

 

Despite the specs being ok, I am thinking of upgrading it slightly and can't decide what would make more sense to go for as the first upgrade. I would love to have more ram as I could see 4gb being not enough but also an SSD would be a nice addition 

 

I already have a 60gb SSD on my desktop so would just upgrade that to an inexpensive 120gb or something and the 60gb would go in the laptop, then all I would need is a caddy to turn the unused optical bay slot into a secondary hard drive bay using the existing laptops 500gb in the process.

 

For ram the laptop only has 1 slot so adding an extra stick of 4gb is out the question but I could sell that and make some money back to go towards an 8gb stick which i the max I can have.

 

So do I go ram or SSD?

What do you use the laptop for? 

 

If it is slow, I'd change the HDD for and SSD. 

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Up to you, see your everyday RAM usage. If it's almost 100% everyday, go for the RAM. If not go with bigger SSD, SSD is important for laptop in my opinion because laptop has to be responsive to get jobs done.

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I would say to only upgrade RAM if you actually need to. If you already use most of or all your system memory, having more would definitely be beneficial, but if you don't need it you would just end up paying for RAM thats just sitting in your laptop doing nothing.

 

So yeah, I would probably vote ssd.

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Laptop is not slow but only being a celeron dual core @2.4Ghz it's not the speediest. For basic web browsing,office tasks, media consumption  and old retro gaming it's just fine.

 

SSD is looking likely at first, I will get to upgrade my desktop with a bigger one and then the 60gb currently in use then goes into the laptop and should. I'm using 2.2gb of ram out of 3.9gb doing not much but will see what that goes up to in average use to decide if I need more ram anytime soon but I don't think I will, but I can live with 4gb if needs be.

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If your using it for every day tasks like Web browsing and running g Microsoft Word I would think that you probably arn't utilizing the 4 gigs of ram you already have. I'm thinking adding another 4 gigs would be a waste of money. You are probably better going for an ssd. Programs will load faster and be more responsive all around.

If you have the money to spend I'd say go for a 250 gig ssd. The Samsung 850 EVO is going for $109.99 on Newegg right now. http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=20-147-372

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Cheers for the input guys.

 

I am going to put  the 60gb OCZ Agillity 3 SSD that's currently in my desktop into the laptop as I doubt i'll need anything bigger than that, plus with a caddy I can shove the current 500gb HDD into the unused optical bay for extra storage if needs be.  

 

Once I do the above It will mean I also have a bigger/better SSD in my desktop as it'll replace the 60gb OCZ. 

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