HeroRareheart

Hey everyone, this is a pretty simple one. I have an old Dell Inspiron 1420 and the CPU that it ships with blows chunks. I know it's old and trying to upgrade it is an exercise in futility but I'm ok with this. I'm trying to figure out what the best CPU I can put in the laptop is, and I'm not sure how to find out. As far as I can tell the CPU would need to be a Socket P chip with a buss speed of 800 MHz maximum. My question is can I use any CPU that meets those requirements or no? How can I find out what CPUs will or won't work? I feel like I'm missing something critical here.

Ok actually question, not trying to be rude, but why? I see no benefit to this as it only adds overhead and TrueNAS can function as a hypervisor. I do all the same with my server and just run TrueNAS Scale on the bare metal.

Well I have asked around and nobody seems to know unfortunately. Wish I had better news for you but I don't.

Like other said Linux distros have window snapping and you can buy third party stuff for it. <REMOVED BY STAFF>

Whew, that's a lot. I hope you plan to do separate drives for Linux and Windows, Windows LOVES to fuck up Linux if it's on the same drive.

Well some of the 2012 models can go up to 32GB. Ther's a few other issues with them though. Bad temp sensors, missing glass pannels, ect that need taking care of. I'm looking at closer to 600-700.

No problem! My workstation laptop worked well up untill it went kaput a few months ago, some component level issue. I only caution you about battery life, an old used laptop may need a new battery at this point. What are you planning to use instead?

I am SO happy to see someone getting back into this. I myself have like 3-4 Wiis and have wanted to make a computing cluster out of them using a modern kernel just to say "I have a Wii computing cluster", how hard would doing something minimal with it, such as Arch, Debian, or Gentoo with only a CLI? If I wanted to start doing what you're doing, what do I need to learn?

In the future try to avoid USB wi-fi adapters. They're flakey and often have really bad Linux support.

Seems like a good idea to me. IF you really wanna save a buck though a used 2010-2015 era workstation laptop, like a Dell precision M4800, could fit your needs well. If going that route you're unlikely to find one supporting Windows 11 so if you're not using Linux you'd get only 2 years out of it on Windows 10.

I have 6 in various condition from the 2008-2012 era. TBH I kinda wanna take the money to fix them all up and max them out.

YOu just gave me an idea on what to do with my army of old iMacs in my attic, Linux computing cluster XD

You should be totally fine. If you're running Windows 11 you're going to want a Linux distro that plays well with secureboot and TPM chips OOTB, so I'd advise Ubuntu or an Ubuntu flavor if that's the case.

On a iMac that old, no. It also can't boot off media in the fat32 format. You CAN however USB boot if you first boot off of a Plop DVD/CD as this stackexchange thread mentions. I also do not advise using Windows 10 due to it losing support in about 2 years and being a VERY heavy OS for such old hardware. You are of course free to do whatever you want to do, it's your stuff after all, but I personally would advise taking a dip into the Linux world. Hope this helps, and if you do decide to look into Linux do not be afraid to ask questions.

What in the fuck? Well this is bizarre. I have some friends who use 3rd party PVP clients such as Lunar and use Linux, I'll ask them and see if they know what's happening.