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Col.Kiwi
Dec 28, 2004
And the grave digger puts on the forceps...
Yeah. I know it feels weird because it was expensive and awesome at the time, but computers change so fast that a 10 year old laptop is pretty useless. You might be able to use it as an HTPC if it doesnt choke on playing HD video, which it actually might at least with the wrong software.

It's true that a lightweight linux distro (I'd try mint) will probably make the system feel more alive. Indeed it probably won't help much with web browsing or doing any demanding tasks, but if you know anyone who just wants like a word processing machine or something maybe they'd be happy with it.

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