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New Laptop or Upgrade current one?

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Smartazz

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My laptop is a Dell Studio with the following specs:
2.5GHz Core 2 Duo 6MB Cache
4GB DDR2 667MHz RAM
ATI Radeon 3450m
80GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
Standard 6 cell battery(Holds under 2 hours of charge)

Compared to my desktop, my laptop is horribly slow and that's understandable as its an SSD vs a 5400RPM HDD. Is it worth putting an SSD in it and buying a new battery or should I look at something newer. My main complaint with the laptop is that it's pretty heavy and very slow(but I think an SSD upgrade would help). I use it for web surfing and office tasks. Should I look into an Ultrabook or should I just keep what I have and make a couple cheap upgrades? It's still under warranty and is in mint condition except for the hard drive which is temporary(hence the small size).

edit: I forgot to mention that I'm planning to buy a 240GB SSD for my desktop and move the 64GB SSD in my sig to my laptop.
 
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Insert SSD, be happy. You can get a 128GB M4 for right at $1/GB right now, which is a great price. Pick up one of those, maybe do a clean install of Windows (which version are you running?) and call it a day.
 
I forgot to mention that I'm planning to buy a 240GB SSD for my desktop and move the 64GB SSD in my sig to my laptop. I'm running Windows 7 HP 64bit btw.
 
If you use the laptop for fun, keep it cheap. If you use it for work, to make money, and doing more work gets you more money, the cost of a computer is small vs the return, so buy the best you can, but don't upgrade too often with the associated replace all the software and learn a new system.
 
mikeford said:
If you use the laptop for fun, keep it cheap. If you use it for work, to make money, and doing more work gets you more money, the cost of a computer is small vs the return, so buy the best you can, but don't upgrade too often with the associated replace all the software and learn a new system.
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Well I use my laptop for fun, but I can't stand slow hdd... My suggestion would be just to upgrade to SSD and it will fell like a new notebook, eventually put 8gb ram...
 
It's going to be for important work that's shifting away from my desktop. I'm thinking about selling my old laptop and using that money to help pay for an ultrabook. The battery life is just too terrible on this Dell. They really should have put integrated graphics in it to save battery. The 6-cell 56Wh(I think) battery never lasted over 3 hours new and now is under 2 hours.
 
Smartazz said:
It's going to be for important work that's shifting away from my desktop....
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Now you're talkin'! Laptops really are not good upgrade candidates. I always plan for a new one every 4-5 years.
 
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