We also have a very cheap AMD quad core 3.2 ghz laptop, which I upgraded from 5400 rpm hard drive to an SSD.  The AMD cpu is very weak in that laptop.  I ended up giving it to my wife for home use as her Acer couldn't get past the second Windows 10 update (and Acer stopped supporting it).  When we travel I take that for work instead of my work laptop. It ran Linux fine, but I decided to give it away without the hard drive as it was a 1 TB 7200 rpm one.  It replaced a hard disk that had 30,000 ho