What to do with an old netbook

[TryHardPajamas]

I have an old netbook from way back when and is just collecting dust. Have any of you seen any cool mods that could be done to the old thing to bring it back to life. I have seen some retro arcade machines made with acrylic, but I was wondering if it could be used for anything else. If not, an old school arcade machine would be cool, considering all of the old roms that were recently released.

 

Arcade cabinet: http://www.koenigs.dk/mame/eng/stepnanocade.htm

 

 

 

 

[Joshua]

Media Server? Use it for Downloading and then Seeding torrents? Install a Linux distro onto it and have a go at that?

[Muffinator]

Have you seen Office Space?

[Bluejay0]

Media Server? Use it for Downloading and then Seeding torrents? Install a Linux distro onto it and have a go at that?

an upvote for that....and another....and another....

[TryHardPajamas]

Media Server? Use it for Downloading and then Seeding torrents? Install a Linux distro onto it and have a go at that?

 

I was thinking about that, but i am also thinking about building a serious media server with 10 or more TB of storage for a huge collection of dvd's cd's and other media.

[TryHardPajamas]

Have you seen Office Space?

 

Yes, but i am more concerned about finding my red stapler...  -_-

[Joshua]

I was thinking about that, but i am also thinking about building a serious media server with 10 or more TB of storage for a huge collection of dvd's cd's and other media.

 

That would be huge selection! You would need a massive amount of media to store that!

[TheSLSAMG]

Chromium, Android x86.

[TryHardPajamas]

That would be huge selection! You would need a massive amount of media to store that!

 

Yah, my parents have a collection of probably 3 thousand cd's and at least 300 movies on dvd. I also have a collection of other media that is in total 2 TB. 

[TryHardPajamas]

I have an awesome idea, I could get a better display from ebay or wherever much like I saw on teksyndicate.

[Joshua]

Yah, my parents have a collection of probably 3 thousand cd's and at least 300 movies on dvd. I also have a collection of other media that is in total 2 TB. 

 

Yeah, my entire collection of media which is several hundred movies, most of which are 1080p and lots a series of television shows all fits on my 1TB drive.