Worth keeping/upgrading?

[helpimcrap]

I've been asked to sort a laptop out for someone.
The CPU is Intel I3-2310m @ 2.1ghz, 3gb and a WD5000 500gb 5400 HDD running W7.

She only wants it for work and shopping - usual internet, office stuff, maybe meetings etc.

I've recommended an SSD drive and potentially a ram upgrade. Fresh install of W7, although unsupported now so would W10 be advised?

Trying to do it so she doesn't have to buy a new one, just spend a little on some faster upgrades.


Advice please?

 

[helpimcrap]

Cheers for the advice. I can get a new SSD for £30 and DDR3 4gb for about £15.
That's 6gb then which is double.
After these upgrades is where I would draw the line.
But bang for buck you reckon they'd be ok? Would be about £50 instead of £400+ outlay. Second hand laptops would be I3s for less than that.

 

[helpimcrap]

Sounds like a good plan overall imho (nice small cost upgrade to give things a bit of a boost), but as noted further above check if you can get proper drivers for win 10 before upgrading the OS. You could always just sling on win 10 unlicensed first, see if you can get things working and wipe it if need be, rather than commiting to it and hoping for the best.

I was thinking this but had forgot about the unlicensed options. I have 2 copies already on USB for mine. Doh.
Cheers for prompting. She has licensed W7 but obviously unsupported. I do the usual spybot and firewall etc. Given me some things to try.

 

[helpimcrap]

Upgraded from 3gb to 6gb for £4 for some 1600 DDR 3 RAM from computer exchange.