acer aspire one upgrade help

[SkR]

i have an Acer aspire one 532h-2db http://bit.ly/1uDOWXc sitting around doing noting and dont know what to do with it. its useless to me as i have a desktop, and 2 other laptops, but dad thinks its quite a nice notebook and could do everything he needs it to do if it were a bit better. 

 

it has an Atom N450, 1 GB DDR2, 250GB hhd @ 3gb/s. i want to upgrade it for him but not sure if it'll be worth it and how i should go about it.

things i could do: mSATA and/or 2.5" SSD, upgrade ram to single 4GB DDR2 (if they still exist, i cant find them)  

 

we do have another laptop lying around which probably isnt worth upgrading but you never know. its a compaq presario cq61 http://bit.ly/1qDClCs i just havent even thought about were to start. cant get DDR memory from what i know anymore.

 

if you guys can help me decide whether it worth doing anything with laptops, and if so, what i could do so they are usable in some way, it'll be appreciated,

 

    

[SkR]

Name Taken thanks. after looking at that other thread, i may see what Linux is like on it. 

[Dr_Frankenstein]

I have an old Compaq 311c netbook (Atom N270, 1GB RAM) and I almost sold it for peanuts on ebay as it chugs using windows, I just installed Openelec (XMBC) and my son now watches all his TV shows and Movies on it, it boots in under 20 seconds and is very quick.

 

A small cheap SSD can make a difference even on an Atom based laptop and extra memory will always help. I would not spend to much and grab some cheap second hand parts on eBay 

[hojnikb]

Even with a fast ssd (they are limited to sata1.5gbit anyway) and buttload of ram, the thing is still gonna be damn slow.

Your best bet is to sell the acer and upgrade the cpu and ram in the HP. And throw SSD if there is any money left.

And obviously win8.1 all the way.