What should I do with this ancient laptop?

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

how ancient specs>

CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz, 2gb ram, windows10 32bit, a running harddrive.

it has been laying around for years and I have nothing to do with it.

it is slow , heavy , hot, plastics are felling falling apart

funny thing about it is that what ever I run on it, cpu maxes out, ram used around 1gb, disc usage often 100% too lol 

 

anyway, I just want to ask for some crazy, interesting ideas to make use of it, 

 

 

 

[Husky]

Reinstall Windows or better, install Linux on it.

[Srishunbagasundaran]

turn it into art, inspired by Lnus's office motherboard wall

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

4 minutes ago, Srishunbagasundaran said:

turn it into art

art or junk, depends how you look at it

8 minutes ago, Husky said:

Reinstall Windows or better, install Linux on it.

whats next? its basically a new windows 10 

[NelizMastr]

27 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

art or junk, depends how you look at it

whats next? its basically a new windows 10 

It was meant for XP/Vista, not for 10, and 10 runs historically poor on slow ass hard drives like you find in laptops of this era. Put a cheap SSD in and it'll feel almost usable  

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

3 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

It was meant for XP/Vista, not for 10, and 10 runs historically poor on slow ass hard drives like you find in laptops of this era. Put a cheap SSD in and it'll feel almost usable

sure, back to xp, then? it came with no os, and I am just lazy finding old drivers. 

remember when any version of win7 can free upgrade to win10(and the requirement is only 2gb ram lol), so the transferable licence is the whole value of the pc.

[NelizMastr]

4 minutes ago, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

sure, back to xp, then? it came with no os, and I am just lazy finding old drivers. 

remember when any version of win7 can free upgrade to win10(and the requirement is only 2gb ram lol), so the transferable licence is the whole value of the pc.

It's hardly value, as this 2006 laptop is basically scrap. But yeah, XP or 7 should run a lot better than 10. It's weird, but some systems really don't want to play nice with 10 while most other older computers, granted they have a faster storage drive, are fine.

[Ashleyyyy]

install Lubuntu, and it will be fast enough for basic web browsing and other general uses.

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, NelizMastr said:

It's hardly value, as this 2006 laptop is basically scrap. But yeah, XP or 7 should run a lot better than 10. It's weird, but some systems really don't want to play nice with 10 while most other older computers, granted they have a faster storage drive, are fine.

Lubuntu (or a similar distro) will run MUCH better than Windows 7...

[NelizMastr]

Just now, firelighter487 said:

Lubuntu (or a similar distro) will run MUCH better than Windows 7...

Not saying it won't, not saying it will. It depends on what you want to do with the laptop. 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

Not saying it won't, not saying it will. It depends on what you want to do with the laptop. 

it is basically redundant, I wished to turn it into chromecast player for TV, but limited ports and horsepower at an extend that setup a raspberry pi costs much less effort...

 

but Lubuntu or Ubuntu?

i once heard Ubuntu had better emulation experience than windows

[NelizMastr]

Just now, dgsddfgdfhgs said:

it is basically redundant, I wished to turn it into chromecast player for TV, but limited ports and horsepower at an extend that setup a raspberry pi costs much less effort...

 

but Lubuntu or Ubuntu?

i once heard Ubuntu had better emulation experience than windows

Lubuntu uses the LXDE desktop environment, which is WAAAY lighter than Unity that Ubuntu uses, which is junk and slow as molasses. 

 

You could also try upgrading that CPU. Lots of Core Duo laptops can be upgraded to Core 2 Duo T7200, 7400 or 7600 CPUs  

[Ashleyyyy]

18 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Not saying it won't, not saying it will. It depends on what you want to do with the laptop. 

Lubuntu stock uses less than 300mb ram. Windwos 7 doesn't. discussion over. 

[NelizMastr]

23 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

Lubuntu stock uses less than 300mb ram. Windwos 7 doesn't. discussion over. 

ok

[NeuesTestament]

8 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

Lubuntu stock uses less than 300mb ram. Windwos 7 doesn't. discussion over. 

And?

Ram Usage alone does not say much about a system's performance. Not saying that I disagree with you but this is hardly a good argument.

[Ashleyyyy]

1 hour ago, NeuesTestament said:

And?

Ram Usage alone does not say much about a system's performance. Not saying that I disagree with you but this is hardly a good argument.

Lubuntu is a fully up to date OS, while Windows 7 is 9 years old. 

 

Lubuntu has no telemetry, Windows 7 does.

 

Lubuntu has no gpu heavy effects in the interface, Windows 7 does. 

 

should i go on?

[NeuesTestament]

1 hour ago, firelighter487 said:

Lubuntu is a fully up to date OS, while Windows 7 is 9 years old. 

 

Lubuntu has no telemetry, Windows 7 does.

 

Lubuntu has no gpu heavy effects in the interface, Windows 7 does. 

 

should i go on?

Like I said, I don’t disagree with Lubuntu being better for this system.

 

 The RAM argument just wasn’t a good one.