Laptop CPU/Ram/HDD or SSD Upgrade

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Hey all!
Recently, I've updated my old laptop's OS from Home Premium to Win7 Professional. Fascinated by how much performance increase came from a simple OS upgrade and a hdd wipe, I decently to research into upgrades more. I've discovered that similarity to desktops, laptop parts can be upgraded easily, but the issue is compatibility and availability of parts. I researched some more and found that my Sony VAIO laptop has some room for an upgrade and for both it's CPU and Ram.

I have the Sony VAIO (VGN-NR46OD) currently with an Intel GL960 chipset motherboard, running 2GBs of DDR2. It also contains a rather disappointing 189 HDD.
I am aware that the GL960 chipset only 'officially' supports celeron processors, however, I've seen discussions where people mentioned a pentium upgrade......
As for Ram, I've heard I may only be able to upgrade to 3/4GB in a stable state.
And for HDD/SSD, I've heard it is easier to upgrade than the other two parts.

My question is, is anyone aware of any compatible and potential CPU, Ram, and HDD or SSD upgrades which I may be able to replace with my old Sony laptop's parts to give it a boost?

Any help and insight is appreciated, as I have only recently looked into laptop related parts and upgrades. Thanks!
 
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An SSD upgrade would be by far the easiest, as for the CPU, not sure. Depending on the Pentium you *might* be able to put it I'm not sure if the performance difference would negate the price. As for RAM, 4GB is a good number to have should you upgrade it.
 
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An SSD upgrade is by far the most worthwhile upgrade available to you. Using one increases performance by leaps and bounds. Next would come the RAM, and 4gb is a very stable and good amount of ram to have. HOWEVER not any type of ram will do. It has to be compatible with your laptop. You can look up what kind of RAM you need here. Finally, though a great idea in theory, since you own a laptop, a CPU upgrade is most likely impossible and almost certainly not worthwhile. (Killing a laptop is surprisingly easy). Again, use this tool to help you with compatibility.
 
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That depends on the laptop... but generally the difficulty, let alone the difference in difficulty, is marginal. Also, if he is running a 32 bit OS (and with 2 gigabytes of ram, he probably is), the increase in RAM will be marginal (Performance wise), and wasteful if he plans on upgrading to a different laptop in the near future.
 
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Would change to the SSD as the first step, and forget about the CPU upgrade.

In terms of RAM, would be best to figure out what the user is doing, and if they need more RAM. For video editing it will help, for word processing not really. Also, can use software to monitor the RAM usage, and see if the majority of it is being used, and routinely running out of RAM- or not.

Agree that 4 GB is a general sweet spot for RAM these days, but no point in putting a ton of money into a Celeron machine when it may be better spent on something more capable.
 
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