Adding SSD to a Acer Aspire

Hello at notebook review. I am interested in installing a SSD drive to replace the Hard drive in a ACER aspire 3680-2682. The reason is my daughter uses it at school and the battery won't stay charged longer than 1 hr. I have heard that a SSD drive will help. Also is there a chart for upgrading the Intel Celeron M440? Thanks in advance Dan

 

The reason why the battery won't work for more than an hour is that it had lost some or most of its capacity.
You can use HWMonitor to compare current capacity with original capacity.

While SSDs will improve battery life to some degree it won't help you much.
A laptop of this size will use no less than 13W, some 2/3W out of which being HDD.
Assuming SSD would use no energy at all (just for calculation) your laptop would use 10-11W, so overall energy consumption would go down by 15-30% (the latter being very optimistic) which would mean up to 20minutes battery time.

Check battery wear- if it's significant- buy a new battery which will give you a lot more battery time for a lot less $.

 

Thanks for the reply. I did buy a new battery from Amazon and sent it to my daughter.She has yet to receive it but we will see. I am just trying to avoid the inevitable (buying her a new latop).

 

The battery should do it in terms of battery life.
As for the performance it uses an Intel 940GML chipset which is supposedly compatible only with Celeron M CPUs although some people on the net say Core 2 Duo will work too- as long as FSB is 533MHz.
I'm not sure if it's worth the investment though.

 

I heard that also about the CPU. Thanks for the input. Dan