Buy or Upgrade?

[Squiddy Pro Quo]

So, I helped my old work with their printer while I visited and was given two laptops for my services (didn't expect to get paid since I offered to help). They said that the laptops were broken and couldn't be fixed. I unplugged the battery and plugged it back it on one laptop and it worked. However, the other laptop's hard drive was fried. It powers on, but because there is no hard drive, so it says there's no hard drive.

 

I installed a hard drive that I had and it works, but is really slow. It has 4gb of ram and a Intel Pentium Silver N5000 processor at 1.1 ghz, but can boost to 2.7 ghz. 

 

TL;DR: Laptop is slow and want to upgrade

 

Should I spend about $250 on 500gb ssd, 16gb ram, Windows 10, and a new power adapter or should I buy a new laptop? I have an Xbox One X, so I wouldn't be gaming on, but would like to have a laptop of my own since I gave my older laptop to my parents. It would be helpful to use a laptop for game help and basic tasks like making excel and word documents and watching YouTube. It's about a $300 laptap as well, but I would rather fix what I have then have two laptops, one of which doesn't work. It would have better components than buying new, so I wouldn't mind upgrading.

[spartaman64]

you should probably buy a new laptop. while an ssd will make it significantly faster that pentium will still hold it back

[Fasauceome]

My mom uses a MacBook with a core 2 duo (maybe quad I can't remember). She got an SSD installed and it's basically a modern machine, perfect for web browsing and YouTube playback. Buying an inexpensive SSD, basically the cheapest 512GB SSD you can get, and a new power adapter, likely comes in under your $250 budget and will do wonders. As for 16GB of ram, that would be rather pointless.