to upgrade or replace?

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at present a student, i use a friends office as i dont study at home but im fed up hauling the laptop through with me. there is a headless laptop there so started using that but its slow, 1.5gb ram running vista slow.

option 1: so cheapest option is buy a 2gb stick and bump it to 3gb. but i worrk that it will still be painfully slow. its only a 1.6 something ghz core 2 duo with a 60gb hdd inside.

option 2: there is a couple desktop machines in the back, optiplex 740 and a 755 they have no hdd or ram.

option 3: buy a new cheap as possible desktop build as in trying to stay under £200

option 4: buy soemtihng better, to replace my media centre phenom 9500 box and move that machine to the office, max budget likely be about £400. poor student so stretching really not much of an option.
 
tbh if i was going to get a new drive id prob opt for sticking in one of the desktops. (ought to be faster cpus than the laptop one)

i just keep thinking if im spending that then its not to far to buying a whole machine.

when is it people got access to the members market? i read stuff here but clearly not a huge poster.
 
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