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Need some ideas for old laptop!

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I need some ideas on what to do with this old laptop I just recieved for free. Its a DELL Inspiron 3000 and it works without a problem. It has 64mb of ram and a 3gig hard-drive. Its a pentium II.

I have no clue what to do with it whether I should just junk it or what. Thinking about things I could do with the LCD screen. Do yall have any ideas?
 
atherton213 said:
only 64kb of ram on a pentium 2??? it probly more like 64mb
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Yah sorry that was my fault I had mistyped it. Im tempted to put linux or something on it but I really wont mess with it =\
 
Want to sell it to me for $100?

I can use it to datalog and tune my car...
 
Tt Tech said:
Want to sell it to me for $100?

I can use it to datalog and tune my car...
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haha your best bet ^... or just run linux on it.... but what are you gonna do in linux....?? i dunno either haha
 
there are several write-ups floating around the net on turning laptops into digital picture frames. i'd got for something like that.

http://hackaday.com and the make magazize blog i think linked to one.
 
Make it a router. Put a couple USB NICs on it. Run IPcop.

You could also use it as a server. Put a USB hard drive on it.

Linux is your friend.
 
atherton213 said:
only 64kb of ram on a pentium 2??? it probly more like 64mb
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Millibit? Methinks you're slightly off on that one as well ^_-

On-topic, in projects like this I always like to see the basic functionality of the device remain intact. Some things you could add include a (semi-)transparant keyboard with LEDs or similar, or you could turn it into a Tablet PC :)
 
Turn it into an LCD picture frame and put it on the wall. I've seen that done on a couple of mod sites.
 
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