cberg wrote:
Edenthiel wrote:
I grabbed a HP3115m we had for this trip to Grandma's House. It's my spouse's & I figured it would be good to cycle the battery a few times, update & tune up Win7, etc.. Didn't realize how long it had been since anyone had used it until I saw the desktop:
(Adafruit + Arduino = Love ...from Limor Fried's site)
It's not a bad netbook style AMD E-300 powered little rig. And everything is accessible from the bottom, which removes completely without tools, like many HP's. I'd even call it "cute", if a bit underpowered. Should be able to extend it's life with a ram boost & small ssd.
I love netbooks. Fair warning, you're gonna want zram or whatever else it may be that compresses /swap/ to within inches of its' life on anything you switch to from Windows. As a Palm fanboy I find my standards ridiculously stringent for shell extensions & the like.
I'll post my Thinkpad's in a minute...
I love netbook sized systems, too. That's why my T200 is still my grab-n-go and it's successor will be similar.
This one is going to stay Windows since my spouse uses it more than I do. It now has 8GB, which helps a lot. The HDD is next, it's still stock which means SATA-2...and the odd little internal slot for a tiny, non-std SSD card for ReadyBoost. I figure since 16GB cards for that slot are < $10 USD & I have a few in a junk box, I may swap out the main drive to SSD and use the little one for VM, logs, etc.
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