How update Presario C304TU?

Presario C300
P / N:RE027PA #AB0
Service C304TU

RAM: RAM Original was DDR2 533 512 MB.  Now it's DDR2 533 2 GB.

HD: HD OEM has 60 GB SATA 5400 RPM.  Now, it's a SATA 160 GB 5400 RPM.
OS: OEM OS is WinXP Home.  Now Windows 7 Pro. 32 (b) is installed.

Now, it is fluid but a bit slow.

IS ANY WAY TO UPGRADE THIS MACHINE MORE?

Thank you.

You have maxxed RAM. An upgrade of the processor is much too difficult and would make not much good anyway. The bottleneck is the hard drive 5400 RPM. You should install a SSD, or at least a mechanical drive of 7200 RPM with 16 MB of cache.

I strongly plead for the SSD. Unfortunately, your computer uses the old PATA disks but they do a PATA SSD.

http://www.Newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820208894

PATA 7200 RPM HDDs are very hard to find and not much cheaper than this SSD when you do.

The 160 GB PATA hard drive on your computer is worth close to what this SSD costs and you could clone your drive for the SSD drive and sells hard drive on eBay. I know this sounds all complexes but it's not easy to wring the best performance on a 8 year old laptop and you use guerrilla tactics.

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