2. I'd swap to an SSD later.
My wife has some Asus X200CA-HCL1205O Laptop, 11.6" HD LED Touchscreen, Intel Celeron 1007U, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, Win 8 that I swapped in a 99USD 240GB Crucial M500 SSD and it's very nice for travel and more. Videos play fine.
But we also have some Asus X202E VivoBook, 11.6" Capacitive Multi-Touch LED, Intel Core i3-2365 Dual-Core 1.4GHz, 4GB DDR3, 500GB SATA, HDMI, USB 3.0, 802.11n, Win 8 and it's performance is more than a notch up. It would be interesting to flip in some SSD to that.
Bob
Hello,
Looking to buy a budget laptop for general web, office, editing the odd photo (basic jpeg not professional at all) and streaming Netflix.
I'm confused as to what is most important for performance. It seems for around £200 I can get a celeron n2840 with 4gb ram but for around £120 extra this could be increased to i3 with 8 GB. Ive also read that ssd can really speed things up.
So my questions are:
1. For my basic computing needs will I see much difference for paying the extra £120 above?
2. Would upgrading a cheap laptop with an ssd be a better bet than worrying about a better processor?
Many thanks

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