"they can still live on as Linux machines. I have an unreasonable level of affection for that old box of mine." So funny you mention that. That's exactly what

"they can still live on as Linux machines. I have an unreasonable level of affection for that old box of mine." So funny you mention that. That's exactly what happened to my older core-i5 machine. It's a media PC in the livingroom running on Ubuntu after I ported the Windows license over to my current machine ;-)