Old laptop...what should I do with it?

[star_pilot475]

So my uncle gave me his old laptop. It’s a Toshiba Tecra M3. Here’s the specs for you guys.

 

-Intel Pentium M clocked at 1.86GHz

-2GB of 600MHz DDR2

-Nvidia GeForce GO 6600 TE 

-40GB IDE hard drive

-Activated copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 

-For some reason Toshiba thought it would be necessary for it to have a quad-SD card reader. That’s right. It can read 4 SD cards at one time.

-DVD drive built in

 

So, I tried updating to Windows 10...but when I tried it said the GPU is not compatible with Windows 10 and I would have display problems if I tried to update. 

 

Yikes!

 

So, what do you guys think I should do with it? 

 

[SenKa]

GPU tops at DX9 IIRC, that means nothing newer than Windows 7.

 

I dont know what you'd do with that other than sell it for some quick scratch. Probably could get 50-80 USD

[aisle9]

Downgrade to XP and use for retro gaming and emulation.

[star_pilot475]

Thanks for the suggestions @aisle9 and @SenpaiKaplan. Maybe I’ll try selling it and upgrading my other rig. If it doesn’t sell after a while, I’ll use it for emulation. 

 

Thanks a bunch! 

[Slayerking92]

Would make a good boat anchor.

[karn_evil]

Put Linux on it and use it as a learning experience. 

[SenKa]

4 hours ago, karn_evil said:

Put Linux on it and use it as a learning experience. 

Pentium M's don't correctly report instruction set support for some instructions, makes Linux a bear to run. Most distros wont let you even install.