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Unsure of the year of laptop. Running very slow. Is it worth bringing to shop to update? 

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Any of these you would buy today would be refurbished and would already have an SSD in place of the HDD.

 

If this still has the HDD, then replacing that with an SSD will get an enormous speed gain in day-to-day performance and a smaller SSD should not cost much, like $50 or less.

 

You might also be able to upgrade the RAM but if it already has 8GB, you won't get much performance gain by going to 16GB.



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Any of these you would buy today would be refurbished and would already have an SSD in place of the HDD.

 

If this still has the HDD, then replacing that with an SSD will get an enormous speed gain in day-to-day performance and a smaller SSD should not cost much, like $50 or less.

 

You might also be able to upgrade the RAM but if it already has 8GB, you won't get much performance gain by going to 16GB.



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