Can I make a gifted computer with a Celeron N2840 faster?

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Ok, so I have a Toshiba with an apparently non upgradable Celeron N2840 CPU. Will upgrading RAM help speed or is the processor throttle down any throughput gains? I don't play games on this system. My wife bought off of Fingerhut. I wiped the Windows Home Edition, and replaced it with Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.3. I have Windows 10 Eval build 11099 (Insider Fast Ring Program) running in a Oracle Virtual Box VM. When I run the VM I can't go online with a browser because it takes CPU load to 100%.
 
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More RAM might help.

It probably ships with the fastest RAM it supports, so I doubt you'll get much gain there. Faster RAM also doesn't tend to offer any gains.

An SSD is probably the best option. They make everything feel a lot faster, though stuff that's processor-heavy won't change much.
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More RAM might help.

It probably ships with the fastest RAM it supports, so I doubt you'll get much gain there. Faster RAM also doesn't tend to offer any gains.

An SSD is probably the best option. They make everything feel a lot faster, though stuff that's processor-heavy won't change much.
 
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I have a similar experience. I have a spare laptop with the N2830 CPU and 4GB ram that was dreadfully slow. I swapped the hard drive for a new Crucial MX100 SSD and clean installed Ubuntu. Performance is acceptable now, all things considered, though it does not multitask well.
 
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