Very Old Laptop

[Gary A]

I have an old Toshiba that is a Pentium 2 with 64 MB of ram. It is a Satellite 4025CDT. I hardly use it but do take it when I travel. If it gets stolen, I haven't lost much. It has Windows 2000 Pro for an operating system. It is VERY slow. Would it be worthwhile to spend 950 baht to upgrade to 128 MB of RAM? Would the extra RAM increase the speed enough to bother? I use a Bluetooth dongle with my cell phone to connect to the Internet.

[dave_boo]

You know what my answer is going to be (install Linux). If you can find 128mb of SDRAM for that price, I'd get it--that is if your battery is good etc.

[A_Traveller]

The point Boo makes is important. These days 'old' kit including memory can be more expensive than new more performanent version, so make sure you check the memory is correct before buying.

Regards

[Gary A]

You know what my answer is going to be (install Linux). If you can find 128mb of SDRAM for that price, I'd get it--that is if your battery is good etc.

I played with that thing on and off for a month. I have Ubuntu and Mandriva on my desktop using a separate hard drive. Neither of them will install on the old Toshiba using the same disks that I used to install on my desktop. The install goes so far and simply stops. I did have DSL and Slax running on the Toshiba but no luck installing full distros.

A small local computer shop has one sealed stick of 128 MB RAM for 950 baht. The laptop battery is shot but does give enough time to shut down if the power fails.

[Rice_King]

I realize this isn't the answer to your question Gary, however I saw this project Laptop into Digital Photo Frame and it really got me to thinking that I would like to try making it if only I had an old laptop to do it with.

[Gary A]

I have an old IBM Thinkpad 600. I think the mother board has given up and it also has a bad keyboard. I'd trade it for a 128 MB RAM board for my Toshiba. The monitor is good, the CD player is good and as far as I know the 12 GB hard drive is OK. It has a 32 MB and a 64 MB ram boards, no floppy drive.