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What to do with an old Vaio Laptop*?

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gabemcg

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My mom gave me her old Sony Vaio PCG 505-f Laptop, because she just upgraded to an iBook...

This thing is OLD... But it does have some things going for it... It's extremely Small, Lightweight, and stylish...

It has a 4gb HD (upgradeable to 80 or 100 I think)

I just upgraded system ram from 32mb to 96mb (the max)

The proc is an intel Pentium MMX I believe 233 mhz...

It fits the minimum system requirements for XP, right now it's running Win 98...

I'd like to do a striped down network install of XP, but I have no clue how to do that,

It has no CD rom drive, and an external floppy...

I guess linux is an option, but I'd prefer XP pro just so I can Remote Desktop into my Headless File Server..

Anyone know how to do a network install or where to find a good guide???

Anyone have expirence with XP on a system with under 128mb of ram?


*note* no I will not give it to you...



**UPDATE**

SEE POST BELOW... Installing over the network as I type...
 
Originally posted by: joedrake
How much for it?
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I'd prefer to keep it, as I just spent $60 on a ram upgrade, the battery is dead, so it only works with the power brick, although a new bat is only like $30 I would say as-is I could let it go for about $100, wich is way more than anyone is probably willing to spend, It's just what it is worth to me... so in short, it probably isnt worth selling...
 
*Update* I found out how to do a network install of windows xp Media Center Edition 2005...

It's installing as we speak... quite the learning/troubleshooting experience, as I've been working on installing windows for close to 2 days now...

But I'll be confident when I'm done that I'll be the only one in the world running MCE 2005 on a VAIO notebook thats almost 10 years old 😀

83%done, so far so good, wish me luck...
 
Originally posted by: loup garou
You're not going to be doing much with MCE.
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Now a'days this POS isnt going to be doing much with anything...

all I want it for:

Wireless websurfing
remote desktop to my file server
word processing
maybe some mp3 streaming...
 
Originally posted by: gabemcg
Originally posted by: loup garou
You're not going to be doing much with MCE.
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Now a'days this POS isnt going to be doing much with anything...

all I want it for:

Wireless websurfing
remote desktop to my file server
word processing
maybe some mp3 streaming...
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For such simple things, you should just use Linux or 98... heck, maybe even W2K. Anything else will be SLOOOOW loading... and i doubt you'll be able to even browse and play an mp3 simultaneously without stutters.
 
I upgraded from a crap-tastic install of 98... It's booting for the first time right now (and taking plenty of it) I think once I turn down all the bells and whistles and stuff and tweak it to hell I should be able to run it just fine...
 
With those specs its almost more trouble than it's worth. THe browsing experience is going to be pretty tedious
 
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