HP Compaq NX9600 PATA to SSD 120 Gb

Tom_M wrote:
Rather than spend time and money trying to resurrect an ancient laptop, check out Walmart. They are selling Gateway computers and two models are $199.
Gateway notebooks at Walmart

I recently purchased the 11.6" 2-in-1 notebook. It's quite well made. S Mode is easily disabled. Specs are:

Windows 10 Home in S Mode
Intel® Celeron® Processor N3350 (1.1 GHz, Up to 2.4GHz, 2M Cache)
11.6” LCD IPS Touchscreen Display, (1920 x 1080)
Tuned by THX™ Audio
64 GB eMMC Storage
4 GB LPDDR4 RAM
0.3MP Front-Facing Camera
Up to 8.5 hours of battery life
Micro SD Slot (Up to 512 GB) x 1
Mini HDMI Output x 1
USB 2.0 x 1
USB 3.0 x 1
Built-in Stereo Speakers x 2
Bluetooth 4.0
Built-in Microphone
Product Dimensions: 11.1” x 7.6” x 0.7”
Weight: 2.6 lbs.

Celeron.. YUCK, that old P4 will run circles around those laptop Celerons.

64 Gig of non upgradable storage, nope, non starter, especially when you factor in MS's insistence of constant 6 month "refresh" upgrades, the first win10 upgrade that gets pushed to this will choke and fail because you do not have enough disk space.

There IS a reason these things are given away, they are junk to start with. OPs old P4 is a better machine to start with..

If you are going to buy a laptop, pass up these cheapies, they are nothing more than a Chrome book knockoff with crippled Win10 OS..

Real laptop with a real HD and processor is going to start around $400.

Ironically, a quick search of Amazon, I have found some 2.5" PATA Laptop SSDs!

HERE is a 128 GB PATA SSD, kind of pricy at $83.

You can get 320 GB spinning rust HERE for $75..

There are also other PATA adapters which will allow the use of Compact flash drives to be subbed in instead (you can get 256 GB or more in CF).

I should note though, SSD or any other solid state flash drive will only speed up the boot time, it will not affect the speed of programs so if the OP wants programs to run faster, this will not help..

as they say it is what it is..