So I have an old Acer Aspire 7560G(ancient budget 2011 laptop) with an A8 3520M and a dedicated Radeon HD7470m. While my gpu was rma'd(3 weeks now) I've started using this old laptop again albeit after buying a small 120GB budget SSD for it.
Now I was thinking one of two things to do with it.
Number 1: Instal a linux distro(most likely Mint or OpenSuse)
Number 2: start finding second hand parts(or new) to upgrade it from the version I have to the maximum possible for the 7560g series and do… See More
It's fine for Windows, no need to go Linux.
Upgradin it makes no sense, you'd upgrade from low end to low end and get nothing. Use it with the SSD. If it lacks RAM, add more. That's all.
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