New laptop...need advice!

[MistaTastyCakes]

I'm picking up an old IBM Thinkpad 390E w/ 128mb of RAM, a PII 333mhz processor, and a 6.4gb hard drive. What fun stuff can I run on this? 🙂 It's been so long since I've owned a slower PC. I got it mainly for AIM and the net wherever I want, but what else can I do with the bad boy? Thanks in advance!

 

[onelin]

one of my friends runs winXP on a p166 laptop w/ a wireless network and just remote desktop's to his PC from his bed 😉 I guess you could add that to the list, heh.
You could always play DOOM on it too.

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

Think an SNES emulator would work, or would it end up chugging along?

Yeah, I was thinking some old games would be kewl.. my personal fav being Descent 2 🙂 I'm debating putting WinXP on there though...will it be reasonably fast w/ all graphic effects turned off, or would I be better off using Win2k?

 

[ElDonAntonio]

if you like strategy games, Starcraft and the likes will be great on that machine!

 

[BlueWeasel]

We have W2K installed on our plotter server (P2 - 333Mhz, 64mb), and it runs OK considering it just acts as a plot server and no apps are run on it. The extra 64mb RAM in the lappy will most certainly help.

 

[alm4rr]

check out "home of the underdogs" for a great list of games that are for older systems and are abandonware

(im not affiliated with them or anything, it's just real good stuff =)

 

[igowerf]

SNES emulator sounds good to me. The underdog site is really good. I got a couple text adventures from that site. How about a glorified mp3 player?