Notebooks Upgrade or New Notebook?

Hi all.

A friend has asked me whether they should upgrade their current notebook or buy a new one.
The main purpose is mainly office/work use and internet browsing.

Specs of the current notebook.

Hewlett-Packard 530 Notebook PC
CPU: Intel Celeron M 420 (1.6GHz)
GPU: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset
RAM: 1GB, 2×512MB DDR2
HDD: 80GB Toshiba
OS: MS Vista Home Basic (32-bit)

My initial thought was to put Win 7 on it and upgrade the RAM to 4GB, but looking more into it, a new notebook seems a better choice (current notebook only supports ATA HDD, no 64-bit OS support).

Any advise or suggestions is greatly appreciated.

 

Probably best to get a new one, but it's going to come down to budget in the end.

 

Budget for a new notebook is £600.

 

go for new one

 

That's pretty old and slow - even an i3 laptop would be quite a bit faster than that.

That said Win 7 + 4GB of RAM would make the current one usable at a much lower cost so its all in the budget I guess.

 

Thank you for the advice folks.
Decided to go with a new notebook.