Remember when 10 years ago was 2009, now its 2014 all of a sudden and 10 year old laptops are now fully capable haswell laptops with 4-8gb of ram at this age and usable to this day with windows 10 or 11
Mine is chromebook with celeron, installed Linux mint cinnamon on it and put 8gb ram and ssd, runs pretty decent for browsing and office, for gaming I mostly play psp games via emulator
as someone who watches videos like these with no extensive knowledge on anything other than pc parts and windows, this is a channel i will come back to! you’re on par with the guys that install windows on pagers, or i saw a recent video of someone putting linux on a leapfrog and running the sonic kiosk
Nice video! Just installed Arch with I3wm on my 2010 HP EliteBook. Very useable, it has an i5-540M, 4GB Ram and an HDD. Half-Life 2 gets 6fps on max settings, but I managed to squeeze a pretty stable 30fps on lowest settings 720p which surprised me. Half-life 1 doesn't run much better but feels a lot smoother. Better for DwarfFortress CDDA Openttd etc. of course. Factorio and other modern 2D games run well too. Only two real complaints, the battery life is pretty miserable like you mentioned and the touchpad is tiny compared to anything modern. I3 is great because I don't have to use the touchpad nearly as much.
I have an x140e which is the AMD version of this laptop, and Debian with Xfce runs butter smooth. Also. Batocera, a Linux- based retrogaming front-end, runs ok off of an external flash drive.
Remember when 10 years ago was 2009, now its 2014 all of a sudden and 10 year old laptops are now fully capable haswell laptops with 4-8gb of ram at this age and usable to this day with windows 10 or 11
10 years? rookie numbers...
Cool demo video. I am using a X1-Carbon Thinkpad and this one has more ports than my newer Thinkpad. Cheers Mate!
My main pc tower / daily driver is from 2013 same with my travel laptop, it's a mid 2013 MacBook air
I've got Zorin OS on a 2008 HP laptop. No problem.
Mine is chromebook with celeron, installed Linux mint cinnamon on it and put 8gb ram and ssd, runs pretty decent for browsing and office, for gaming I mostly play psp games via emulator
as someone who watches videos like these with no extensive knowledge on anything other than pc parts and windows, this is a channel i will come back to! you’re on par with the guys that install windows on pagers, or i saw a recent video of someone putting linux on a leapfrog and running the sonic kiosk
Nice video!
Just installed Arch with I3wm on my 2010 HP EliteBook. Very useable, it has an i5-540M, 4GB Ram and an HDD. Half-Life 2 gets 6fps on max settings, but I managed to squeeze a pretty stable 30fps on lowest settings 720p which surprised me. Half-life 1 doesn't run much better but feels a lot smoother.
Better for DwarfFortress CDDA Openttd etc. of course. Factorio and other modern 2D games run well too.
Only two real complaints, the battery life is pretty miserable like you mentioned and the touchpad is tiny compared to anything modern. I3 is great because I don't have to use the touchpad nearly as much.
Great review mate! keep it up!
Well Done Sir! New Sub: Detroit, Michigan, US
I have modern Debian 12.8 on my 2009 Sony VAIO subnetbook and it runs fine minus Wimax doesn't work in the USA because no more 3G.
you get straight to the point. Good...
I have an x140e which is the AMD version of this laptop, and Debian with Xfce runs butter smooth. Also. Batocera, a Linux- based retrogaming front-end, runs ok off of an external flash drive.
Dude, what is that carpet
I think any 10 year old laptop is useleable today
Yep
install 7 on it next!
nice
the answer is yes.
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