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Ask HN: Fun things to do with old laptops?
I have an old PowerBook G4 (1.66ghz / 1.5gb ram / 70gb drive) and an old small Sony laptop (1.ghz centrino / 512mb ram / 40gb drive / built-in camera). I'd really like to do something neat with them, so I'm open to ideas of what to do.
- tjpick 16y agogive them to your underfunded local school.
- jeebusroxors 16y agoThey make nice little servers and have a built in "UPS". asterisk, nfs, dns, dhcp, backups etc. How about a carputer?
- amk 16y agowhat's a carputer?
- jeebusroxors 16y agoIn short a computer in the car. I had always thought the idea of pulling up my driveway and loading MP3s to my car via wifi would be pretty sweet. You could also throw in GPS, movies, or any other linux based app.
- pook 16y agoMobile p2p a la Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe. Mix wardriving with a way of getting cheap secondhand laptops, and you could have an interesting market. http://craphound.com/est/?page_id=1574 http://craphound.com/est/?page_id=1574
- silasb 16y agoRun Haiku!