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Just got a free laptop, whats something cool to do with it?

MetalMat

MetalMat

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I have been looking for a cheapo laptop to upgrade to from my old (and heavy) 486 66mhz laptop, and my friend nick hooked me up with this for free:

Compaq Armada 1500c
P2, 300mhz
96 mb Ram
4gb Hard Drive
Windows 98se

What is some stuff to do with it? I was thinking of buying a wireless network card so I can surf the net, and I was also going to use it to store and edit music recorded by my self project and my band.

Oh yeah, I put starcraft on there
 
You could always throw a Linux distro on there and serve something or whatnot- you'll find its much quicker than Win98SE on that old hardware. There also some good (free) recording apps out there if that is what you are looking for.

I recommend Ubuntu Linux - they tend to have decent wireless card support.
 
I never thought 486 laptop is heavy. I had Dell 486 100mhz laptop and it is very small very light to carry. now I bought Compaq lappy, very bit heavy.
I gave Compaq a makeover by add more memory, cheap wireless card, and fresh formatted Win98se. I want to have Linux but there are some linux drivers not avaiable for compaq. Also you might want to add Firefox, Sygate Personal Firewall, AntiVir, and WordPerfect Office 12.
 
I'd like to see it explode... get the biggest and fattest firecracker(s); put the laptop on top or even balance and see it go up the sky. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Its fine for taking notes and for web browsing/email and thats about it
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Actually, It runs Counterstrike and Starcraft 🙂 Even though the graphics are not that hot, I am surprised it can run em.
 
I got a very similar laptop for free two years ago. It's an old 14" HP OmniBook 4150 Pentium II 300. It had 64MB and about a 5GB hard drive. I got a modern 30GB 5400RPM drive for it and maxed it out to 256MB (it can only handle 2x 128MB). It runs XP just fine. I'm actually typing this post on it. It's only about 5 lbs, and I got a 2nd drive-bay battery on eBay for $10, so battery life is 6 hours.

At least I don't have to worry about throwing it around or leaving it baking in my car on a 90-degree afternoon. It's pretty much disposable. I'll be getting a new one in a couple months just because I want something ultra-portable, but this thing doesn't seem to want to die.

I just wanted to point out that it could be a perfectly usable laptop, not just something to screw around with as a novelty. If you're just using Office apps and surfing the web, a P2-300 is fine, and if you upgrade the RAM, XP will work perfectly. Getting two 128MB sticks for it will only cost $33.
 
hmmm...you can run counterstrike?

my athlon2500+, 512mb ram, igp320-m w/64mb can barely run counterstrike at a decent framerate (50-60fps) @ 1024x768
 
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