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Upgrade A Netbook?

Some time ago, I got my daughter a netbook, a HP Mini 110. She doesn't like it that much and I wanted to try and fix / upgrade some things. Wonder if you guys have some thoughts on:

- RAM. It has 1GB, can take 2GB ($35). I imagine that's a good idea, would make it feel a bit snappier?

- SSD. It has a 160GB HDD, I see that a 64GB SSD is $130 or so. What difference will that make? It is a real PITA to upgrade the HDD on a netbook when it doesn't have a DVD drive and I don't have a O/S DVD? Seems I'd need to clone the drive using a backup program?

- O/S upgrade. It has Windows 7 "Starter". I don't want to do a Mac OS hack or install Linux, so probably just leave the O/S alone?

Oh, here is a perennial irritation. It has a weird screen resolution, 1024 x 600. Some dialog boxes are too "tall" for the screen, so that the bottom of the box where the "OK" "Cancel" buttons live, is not visible. There is typically no way to scroll those boxes. Any solution for this?
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