laptops aren't really upgradeable, so i doubt you'll be able to upgrade it without buying a new pc.
below 2 gb of ram is barely enough to run the systems starting from windows xp, so you get a lot of swap file use if you tried any memory intensive programs like java which makes everything slow. you'd need minimum 4 gb of ram to avoid that.
ati radeon graphic cards have horrible opengl drivers, so you'd need a good nvidia geforce. java doesn't use directx, so no matter how good you can run skyrim and the likes, it won't help here. this might be your main problem.
the cpu's not the best either. an intel i3/i5 would be much better, but those are still kinda expensive.
below 2 gb of ram is barely enough to run the systems starting from windows xp, so you get a lot of swap file use if you tried any memory intensive programs like java which makes everything slow. you'd need minimum 4 gb of ram to avoid that.
ati radeon graphic cards have horrible opengl drivers, so you'd need a good nvidia geforce. java doesn't use directx, so no matter how good you can run skyrim and the likes, it won't help here. this might be your main problem.
the cpu's not the best either. an intel i3/i5 would be much better, but those are still kinda expensive.