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Originally Posted by BeerOnABeach
Google is your best friend.
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... this time, maybe. Actually, not really.
I hate to see an over-reliance on Google searches, as the results can be very misleading or downright wrong/false. (You need look no further than the election of that goober for proof of that!)
The bigger issue is a 2010 budget-grade laptop. No amount of RAM is going to fix CPU or graphics. It's simply past it's sell-by date. My own 2012 laptop runs rings around his (i7, 1tb SSD, 12gb RAM, IPS) and it's very obviously slow compared to my Skylake build from 2015/2016.
I don't think RAM alone will do much. In fact, SSD may make a much bigger difference. Or, better yet, do both.
Then again, 7 years is really pushing it. Now, I'm all for pushing old systems to do tasks. Just look at my dual-core AGP Windows XP ATI AIW capture systems. However, those are for capturing only, offline use only.
On his laptop, simple normal internet usage will be a problem. Gaming will especially be a problem, as that's a demanding specialty task, just like video. Modern gaming is more akin to H.264 or H.265 encoding, which is something my capture system would be painful at doing, assuming it can be done at all.
I just do not see this laptop being used for gaming. It's too old, RAM upgrade or not.
Google wouldn't have told you that.