Question regarding weather or not i should get a ssd

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Bloodbath1298

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I have a dell insperon 17r that is extremely slow. It gets faster when its all booted up and after you open the program you want to use. i know a ssd would decrease boot time and make programs and stuff faster but my laptop also needs a new battery. so i am looking at $200 to get this laptop ready to use for school this fall. I was also thinking that after i upgrade the boot drive it might still be slow because of the other components. another option is to get a acre predator helios 300 for $1000. what would you recommend me do. buy a hard drive and a battery for $200 or just buy a acre predator for 1k. im going to school for computer science

current laptop specs:
i7-3517u 1.9 ghz
8gb ram
integrated intel gpu
1tb 7200 rpm hard drive
 
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Since you have just done an OS clean install, it would be best to do another clean install once the SSD is in place if it isn't too much trouble. Win will...
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Yes, get a SSD if you can afford one. Your battery will last longer too.
Your slowdown may be caused by too many things loading up with Win.
Eliminate stuff that you can run on an as-need basis.
Run CCleaner and do the Clean and Registry portions both.
Run Malwarebytes to see if some poorly written malware is slowing things down.
 
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Takes a lot less to access an SSD, it's all electronically done on flash memory. A hdd requires power to spin the discs, power to move the armatures, power to read/write magnetic fields etc. Not uncommon for a move from solo hdd to solo ssd to almost double battery life in some instances. Ssd does more than improve load times (which saves power) it'll also cache repetitive items, so in games where you see the same blade of grass, the same house, same car, same dude, same gun etc those all come from flash memory, taking next to no time to shove at the gpu, vrs all being read from a spinning disc, after first having to search and find them. SSDs also don't suffer from a fragmented drive issue, you never Defrag an SSD, doesn't need it. Trim does it all by itself.

Move to SSD? Big bonus for a notebook/laptop.

The only real advantage of the Acer over current laptop + ssd + battery, will be the stronger cpu/gpu. This might be important to some, where graphics are a priority, but if graphics aren't a priority, you'll find the older laptop will outlast the Acer in a battery life contest.
 
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Ok ill just get a ssd and a battery. it would be nice to game on it too but i have a nice gaming pc at home i can play. also as for malware or lots of start up items it currently has a clean windows install.
 
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I'd definetly get an ssd and a battery, your laptop specs are still good enough for school. As for gaming without a dedicated gpu you're gonna have to stick to old games like COD 4 and the following 2 in the series and stuff like Mafia 1, if you've got at least an Intel HD 3000 then with that cpu you can probably run Mafia 2 reasonably smoothly with the graphics turned down.
 
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Since you have just done an OS clean install, it would be best to do another clean install once the SSD is in place if it isn't too much trouble. Win will align the partitions correctly when it is installed if it sees a SSD. Simply cloning the HDD partition to the SSD will probably result in partition mis-alignment (Slower access time) unless the clone pgm knows to align the partitions for you.
 
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