What do I do with an old laptop?

[Matt Price]

make it into a big clunky ipod with amarok and blackbox.  buy a
wireless pcmcia card and you can stream audio from wherever.

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:58:43PM -0500, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> I have a very old, Compaq Presario 1245 laptop, with a AMD-k6 333Mhz
> processor and 128 MB memory (4 gig HDD). Most importantly, perhaps, it
> does not have a ethernet adapter on it. It does have a PCI card slot,
> though.
> 
> What is the best - or most creative - way to use it around the house?
> Does anyone have any tips as to what I can do with this laptop and
> how? Ubuntu runs fine on it.
> 
> Would I rather be better off selling it on ebay for the 100-odd
> dollars the model seems to sell for?
> 
> I heard of the picture frame thing on metafilter, but that holds no
> interest for me.
> 
> Expecting some creative suggestions :)
> 
> Carthik.



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