old laptop

[WaSaPeaS]

I just came in possession of an old 200mhz pentium laptop. There isn't much I can do with it, so i was wondering if there are any cool mods or parts I could pull out of it to use. Even with linux, I think even the fastest window manager would be unbearably slow. Could I rip out the lcd and do something fun with it?

 

[ethebubbeth]

heheh i think any modding involving a laptop would be much more hardcore than anything i would EVER think of doing...

 

[dkozloski]

I have an old Sony laptop with a 166Mhz Pentium that runs Win XP just fine. If yours is short on memory it should be no trick to find old notebook memory cheap. I paid $20 for 2 64meg SODIMMS. The only thing that was unbearably slow was the installation. All the hardware was supported by native XP drivers. Try it. You might like it.

 

[vegetation]

Win98 should work great with it. I wouldn't touch win2k or higher. Could make for a decent kiosk machine, set up a wireless card with a thin client and it'll be very usable.

 

[Chaotic42]

You could use X with it. Shouldn't be any problems. Use something small though. You might be able to sell it.

 

[Zoomer]

Use as it as a proxy, http or something server. Use linux.

Should be okay.

 

[MichaelD]

I'm posting from a Dell Latitiude PII-266. It came with a whole 64mb of memory. I added another 64mb. With 128mb of memory, I can have about half a dozen IE windows + Outlook open with no probs. Running W2KSP3 on it.

Can't play any games but Solitaire and the original Diablo, but hey, it was CHEAP.