I am about to throw my Lenovo G550 into moving traffic

I have seriously at the end of my FREAKING ropes with my Lenovo G550 (2598) laptop. I swear on my life I am about to go and purchase a new computer and best believe it will NEVER be a lenovo. I am at the end of my ropes with this piece of crap laptop. It seems to me that I have joined like 1500000 other people having the same issue and no one from lenovo seems to have a viable answer to the problem. My computer literally will work occasionally and then it will just start to shut off at random times on me. It has went to sleep on me 5 times already trying to post this message. I just completely did a factory reset on the thing and erased all of my files and returned it to its "factory" state. This did not fix the issue. In fact, it has gotten 10x worse since i did the factory reset. I have ran Malware bytes. I restarted the computer in safe mode and ran combofix, malware bytes, adwcleaner, cccleaner, and **bleep** near all of the solid antivirus softwares. I have manually scanned the registry for anything that should not be there and still have found nothing. I am fed up to no end here. I design websites and have a business online that I CANNOT BE DEALING WITH THIS BULL. I have searched on here and literally have found nothing whatsoever that is gonna help me solve the issue. I took the back of the computer off and airdusted the fan (filled with dust) and that did not help either. I mean what more is there possibly to do? I will install a software and every time it usually says something along the lines of "a pending restart may be near. Are you sure you want to continue with the installation?" Someone with some knowledge for the love of God come and shed some light on this bull**bleep**. I just bought this laptop like 2 years ago so if thats what happens to your laptops after 2 years best believe I will go with apple for the rest of my life because i dont see any of my friends with macbooks having any sorts of these problems.

Why aren't you having it repaired? If a factory reset and installing the latest official drivers doesn't help it's usually a hardware issue.
If it shuts down randomly could be the motherboard or CPU.
I wouldn't buy Apple, everything is glued or soldered together, and when you run out of warranty, you will go bankrupt trying to have it repaired.
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Firstly. Is it possible to change the stock HDD with an SSD drive? I have a budget of about $100 AUD so it would only be a 60-120gb HDD. Would 60gb be enough (I really only need about 30gb of space on the c: drive), or would I need to look at the 120gb option.
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hey addam19,
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p.s : sorry for my english !

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click "create recovery disc" and next >
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