How to speed up my laptop capable to edit photos and videos?

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This notebook seemed to me a good choice handling my photos and videos, but later there is a need to edit great size of photos and videos (using Photoshop sw.) what resulted to slow down significantly the computer. My question only, is there a chance to speed up the notebook by increasing RAM size from 4GB to 8 GB. Or is there any possibilities to fit higher capacity / independent video card to the motherboard. If so what video card types would be applicable and compatible to this notebook?

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It's a Celeron N3060 which is at the very low end of the pecking order as far as processor power. 

It has one memory slot and can take up to an 8 gig module of DDR3L-1600 memory. There is no way to improve the processing or video rendering power of the laptop short of entirely replacing the motherboard, which would probably cost as much or more than you paid for it. 

You could increase the memory to 8 gigs and you would see some marginal improvement in the ability to handle larger videos and you could also use a solid state drive in lieu of the very slow 5400 rpm spinning hard drive. But the bottleneck in your sytem in doing any kind of serious photo or video content creation is that very slow processor and there is not any easy workaround for that. 

For the kind of work you want to do, you need at least an Intel i5 and preferably an i7 processor and a solid state drive and a dedicated video chip and 16 gigs of RAM. In other words, you are looking at a machine that will cost at or in excess of $800-1000 US dollars or the equivalent. 

Post back with any more questions.