Hello everybody.
Back in 2014 I bought an HP-pavilion 20 all-in-one PC. It runs on an AMD E1-1200 APU with 4GB of RAM and an HDD hard drive of 500GB. I know one can expect very little from all these in terms of performance, but the thing is I didn't know much about computers back then and it seemed like a reasonable deal at the time. I should also mention that it came with Linux Ubuntu pre-installed.
Anyway, a few years back I decided to change the software to Windows as I was struggling with compatibility with certain programs and printers that weren't available for Linux. So, I take the computer to the technician and he says that the system will be extremely slow if I get Windows installed in it and that also one of the reasons it ran on Linux in the first place was the extremely weak processor. Unfortunately, like with most AIO PCs, it had the CPU soldered on the motherboard and we couldn't make any upgrade regarding the processor. All he could suggest to me was to replace the existing hard drive with an SSD one to enhance the performance of the system as much as possible. Eventually, I kept the HDD and the performance was indeed decreased with Windows 10, even more so than with Linux.
So my question is, would an SSD really make that much difference with a weak processor like E1-1200? Is it really worth the upgrade or will the processor just constantly be bottlenecked by the SSD? Any suggestion will be much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.
Back in 2014 I bought an HP-pavilion 20 all-in-one PC. It runs on an AMD E1-1200 APU with 4GB of RAM and an HDD hard drive of 500GB. I know one can expect very little from all these in terms of performance, but the thing is I didn't know much about computers back then and it seemed like a reasonable deal at the time. I should also mention that it came with Linux Ubuntu pre-installed.
Anyway, a few years back I decided to change the software to Windows as I was struggling with compatibility with certain programs and printers that weren't available for Linux. So, I take the computer to the technician and he says that the system will be extremely slow if I get Windows installed in it and that also one of the reasons it ran on Linux in the first place was the extremely weak processor. Unfortunately, like with most AIO PCs, it had the CPU soldered on the motherboard and we couldn't make any upgrade regarding the processor. All he could suggest to me was to replace the existing hard drive with an SSD one to enhance the performance of the system as much as possible. Eventually, I kept the HDD and the performance was indeed decreased with Windows 10, even more so than with Linux.
So my question is, would an SSD really make that much difference with a weak processor like E1-1200? Is it really worth the upgrade or will the processor just constantly be bottlenecked by the SSD? Any suggestion will be much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.