I've never had a lot to do with laptops so this is based off of my knowledge of desktops, but should be mostly the same.
As you said upgrading ram is easy enough, just make sure you match it with what is currently in the system so you don't have any issues. Doesn't have to be the same brand but type (ddr2, ddr3 etc) and speed (133mhz, 333mhz etc) should match.
Aside from the trouble of actually changing out a cpu in a laptop, which I've never done on a laptop but looks like you have to take the entire thing pretty well apart. Intel and AMD are not interchangeable, you would also need to replace the motherboard to be compatible with the intel. Again more than likely way more work than it is worth.
As far as disk space goes I would look at getting an enclosure for the hard drive out of the broken laptop and using it as external storage for your media.
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