First of all, if you think I posted this in the wrong community then feel free to point me to some other community where i can post this.

I recently moved to another house and found an old laptop i had when I was 10 while looking through some old stuff. It’s an old Acer netbook, specs are

  • CPU: Intel Atom N2600, 1.6Ghz
  • RAM: 1GB, DDR3
  • Storage: 320GB HDD
  • Screen: 10.1" lcd, apparently it has a resolution of 1280x1024 according to the control panel but windows 7 won’t let me go beyond 1024x600

I thought about installing linux on it, however I don’t intend on using it for anything. I already have a good laptop and so does the rest of my family. The CPU is definetly too slow to do anything beyond simple text editing, and I’m sure it would explode if i tried going to the internet with it, so it’s not really suitable for daily driving. Thing is, it still works, and I don’t really feel like throwing it in the trash. Is there any possible use case for a machine like this? Can you suggest me some use cases for it?

  • Hyperreality
    1•10 months ago

    Also have an old netbook. I use it to run old games.

    Mine’s on windows 10, but yours probably still runs on XP which is no longer safe. So do a reset, make sure it can’t connect to the internet(airport mode, disable wifi, firewall on lockdown), and google how to disable stuff/services to make it slightly speedier.

    Gog has plenty of (free) older games. Don’t pirate older games, they might connect to the internet, which is a security risk.