Good to see win10 in the 'cons'....

Yeah Jafo I would run Windows 7 if MS still supported it. Windows 10 is just a clusterfu*k of an OS. 

To my opinion you should've went with a quad core, and a I5, or a I7, and 16 or better gigabytes of ram before you worry about a SSD drive.

I would even go with integrated graphics to get those specs. 

I would use windows 10 over 8.

I wasn't looking to buy a computer with or without a SSD drive, it's just what it came with. All I use my computer for is web browsing, word processing, and playing 10 year old games. So a traditional hard drive would have been fine. And 8 GB of RAM is more than enough for me. It's a notebook. Of course it has integrated video. 

Not true at all. You will get far more speed from an SSD than a spinning disk!

Yep, Phoon's right...a SSD is second on the list of improvements for speed....after more ram.

Though...in the case of a laptop....it's 3rd....after more ram [second] and FIRST... reformat to get rid of all the pre-installed bloatware...

Exactly!  Over the years I performed several upgrades and replacing a regular HDD with a SSD was more noticeable performance/speedwise than upping the CPU and/or RAM specs.  Yes, upping the RAM can help with more memory intensive tasks, but it doesn't necessarily improve speed significantly.  A faster CPU will produce better speeds, but if a regular HDD [especially say, a 5400RPM] bottlenecks that extra speed and power, then it can be a wasted exercise.

Yup, SSDs have revolutionised computing, and given how prices have fallen in the last couple of years, replacing a platter drive with a SSD is probably the best upgrade for the money.

Jafo I was surprised to find almost no bloatware on here on the first boot. Maybe 5 to 7 programs I uninstalled quickly and easily. Other than my diabetic eyes having to adjust to a smaller screen the laptop isn't too bad. 

It's  still the recovery partitions and other 'junk' that no one ever really needs...all 5 laptops currently in the house have been redone from full drive wipe...

I guess things dont matter if your games are ten years old, but if you were playing current games, or were planning to. I play multiplayer my friend uses an A10. The processor makes a difference.

No recovery partition on this one. I think it relies on a cloud reinstalltion if you need a system restore. 

My computer was like that I made a usb recovery flash drive.

Yeah, no worries, I uninstalled all the software it came with, basically I went back to a vanilla install. Then I added my programs of choice. Still thinking of putting Windowblinds on here, it would be the first time I have used Stardock software in years. 

Kona....the process for a laptop is to fully format the drive, not just a partition....and don't just rely on uninstalling  'stuff'.... simply have nothing what-so ever existing on the hardware at all.

Then format...install the OS.  Update...add drivers etc...then you have a vanilla OS.  If you are 'deleting something' it means you got it wrong already...