uses for old netbook..?

[Ashleyyyy]

i own an old netbook, which i've decided to dust off and find a use for. specs:

 

intel atom n570 1.66ghz

2GB ram

old 60GB SSD

intel graphics

10.1 inch 1024x600 display

 

i'm currently downloading manjaro i3, i still need to figure out if it works reliabely. it boots to BIOS without crashing, so that's a good sign.

thing is, i don't know what to do with it. it's too slow to comfortably run Windows because of the low ram...

the battery is still good as far as i know. keeps it running for more than 4 hours last time i used it.

 

anyone know what i could use it for?

[historicalpoultry]

Why not fold a bit on it? It won't be very effective but every little bit of power can help

[Ashleyyyy]

Just now, historicalpoultry said:

Why not fold a bit on it? It won't be very effective but every little bit of power can help

it'll probably break... the cooling is not that great... it gets toasty installing Linux...

[divito]

Without a specific use case, you're mostly looking at some Linux OS experimentation with some of the lightweight distros out there if you're into that sort of thing; something like Arch, PIXEL, Lubuntu, Puppy etc...

When I get home later, I have an Optiplex 160 at home I'm going to see what I can get running on it since it's pretty low specs. Remix OS and some other Android x86 ones haven't worked yet. Will probably have to settle for something a little more normal.

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, divito said:

Remix OS and some other Android x86 ones

hey that's a great idea! i'll try android on this. it's worked in the past. thanks!