Very slow laptop - Pavilion g6-2245ea

Hi,
My Pavilion g6-2245ea laptop has started to run extremely slowly, even during the most simple of tasks. I was hoping to get some advice on an upgrade.
It has a 1.7ghz processor with 8gb of RAM and is running windows 8. Which of these should be upgraded or should I upgrade both?
Its mainly used for browsing the internet, looking at photos and for watching the occasional DVD, all of which it does painfully slowly.
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8 gigs is the most RAM you can put in it and the processor upgrade is not practical. In fact, the processor is soldered to the motherboard so an upgrade would require purchase of a motherboard and processor. The AMD E2-1800 is not very strong but you are pretty much stuck with it. But the real bottleneck in the system is the pokey 5400 rpm hard drive. The upgrade of choice these days is a solid state hard drive. For your uses the SSD will make everything way faster. Boot time will be slashed to 15-20 seconds and applications and web pages "pop" open. You have to see it and once you have used a laptop with an SSD you will never go back.
This is the Service Manual:
Manual
See Page 44 for hard drive replacement instructions. Here is a 256 gig SSD for $115.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148820
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