Re: What do I do with an old laptop?
- From: Jan Moren <jan.moren@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:53:25 +0900
mån 2006-02-20 klockan 22:35 -0500 skrev Eric Dunbar:
On 2/20/06, Carthik Sharma <carthik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a very old, Compaq Presario 1245 laptop, with a AMD-k6 333Mhz
processor and 128 MB memory (4 gig HDD). Most importantly, perhaps, it
does not have a ethernet adapter on it. It does have a PCI card slot,
though.
What is the best - or most creative - way to use it around the house?
Does anyone have any tips as to what I can do with this laptop and
how? Ubuntu runs fine on it.
Would I rather be better off selling it on ebay for the 100-odd
dollars the model seems to sell for?
I heard of the picture frame thing on metafilter, but that holds no
interest for me.
Expecting some creative suggestions :)
Given that you know it works and you know it works well, I'll offer up
the not-so-creative solution of simply keeping it as a backup or as a
portable typewriter. You never know when your main machine goes down
and you absodesperatolutely need a functioning computer!
Add a USB2 or Firewire PCI card, one with two (or more) ports. connect a
network adapter on one port, and an external harddrive on the other, and
you have an instant home-network wide file server and backup solution;
one that is small, quiet and energy efficient.
Alternatively, or in addition, you can add a webcam, wi-fi or almost
anything else through those ports.
Since a laptop is built to be energy efficient and portable, it is great
as an always-on small server. And if the battery is still working, it
even has its own UPS built right in. The only drawback is cost; you'd
never buy a new laptop just to have as a server. But if you already have
an older one lying around...
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