SSD in netbook?

[kirilmatthew]

I have an old netbook ( Acer aspire one D250) with a single core Atom n270 and 1gb of ram. Tragically, my mother dropped the netbook and the HDD broke. this happened awhile ago, but now I am going to university and I want something portable I can type notes on and whatnot. I also own a desktop. What I am planning to do is buy an SSD(64gb, maybe 128) and using it in my netbook until I really need a laptop, at which point I would probably put the SSD in my desktop. I am considering an SSD mainly because I want decent performance and I've seen what it did with a very old windows tablet for a nearly identical CPU. I was wondering if this is a wise investment. Actually any guidance would be greatly appreciated, including SSD suggestions or other ideas for university and whatnot. I want to keep as low a budget as possible. I live in canada so when linking, if you do, keep that in mind Thanks in advance!

 

[kawininjazx]

The boot time will be fast, but it will still be slow. I had a newer Dell Mini and maxed out the memory and put in an SSD, installed no programs but Chrome with Adblock and it was still slow.

 

[hang-the-9]

If you need a new disk anyway and will re-use the drive later, no reason not to get one. If you will re-use it, get the larger one though. 128gig is really the lowest you want to go if you have any thoughts of installing several programs on the laptop and keep music or anything on it.

 

[burdenbound]

I have a 120GB in my netbook, it helps a little bit but not as much as you would think. The processors in those machines are so slow that it's still not very peppy. The SSD does allow the CPU to work at 90%+ almost all the time though because it doesn't have to wait on the HDD. If anything it makes it move a little faster and gives you peace of mind when moving it around while it's running.

 

[kirilmatthew]

The boot time will be fast, but it will still be slow. I had a newer Dell Mini and maxed out the memory and put in an SSD, installed no programs but Chrome with Adblock and it was still slow.

Thanks for the response. The thing is I already have an old windows tablet with a comparable CPU but one more Gb of Ram and an SSD and it runs quite nicely. I'm obviously not expecting great performance, I just need it for office 2013 and basic tasks. I wasn't satisfied with it when it worked, but I was wondering if this would improve it for that. I really want to avoid shelling out $300-$400 for a laptop right now, and the SSD could be used in the future in my desktop anyways.

 

[kirilmatthew]

If you need a new disk anyway and will re-use the drive later, no reason not to get one. If you will re-use it, get the larger one though. 128gig is really the lowest you want to go if you have any thoughts of installing several programs on the laptop and keep music or anything on it.

I won't be keeping any things on it except docs and I would probably only use it as a boot drive and a few programs in my desktop. I work perfectly fine with my 32gb windows tablet and that has more on it then my netbook would. That being said, if there isn't much of a price difference more is always better!

 

[kirilmatthew]

I have a 120GB in my netbook, it helps a little bit but not as much as you would think. The processors in those machines are so slow that it's still not very peppy. The SSD does allow the CPU to work at 90%+ almost all the time though because it doesn't have to wait on the HDD. If anything it makes it move a little faster and gives you peace of mind when moving it around while it's running.

That seems a bit odd, considering my tablet with virtually the same CPU runs at under 10% most the time except when playing games(apps) and right when opening programs. Another question, how much difference would 2gb ram make and would it be worth it cost-wise. I think it's ddr2 which is more expensive.