• WolfmanEightySix
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    316 days ago

    I wonder what happened to the 15(?) year old laptop at my mum and dads house…could anything be achieved with that?

    • @skarn@discuss.tchncs.de
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      816 days ago

      Put in a SSD and you’ll be surprised how far it can get you.

      My father is still using a 13 year old 14" Dell I gave up 6 years ago. He’s even using it with windows 10, and having a SSD it works almost bearably well. They keyboard broke, and with the laptop not being Win11 compatible, he asked for an upgrade.

      I got him a 6 year old Thinkpad, but I’ll install Mint and give him a VM for the few SWs he needs Windows for.

    • @cron@feddit.org
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      316 days ago

      Surely you could do something with it, but it probably has less power than a current raspberry pi.