WTF, I'm 21 and I don't consider that old old. I was figuring you were gonna talk about a P166 with only a floppy drive or something. I don't know, I still got old computers around, including a Toshiba Satellite with like 78mhz and a black and white screen. So your's isn't old at all in my terms.
Anyway, I'd throw Linux on it and see how it goes. Probably DSL. A desktop would be better for this, but you could hook up a controller to it, plug in a VGA cable, and hook it to a flat screen TV, and use it as a gaming system. Most emulators will run on what you have, possibly even N64 would. I had a 1.1ghz running XP that'd run N64 pretty well, with less RAM than your laptop, I think it was 192 megs of RAM. So with Linux being more efficient and usually the native environment for most emulators, I think running N64 would be attainable, you could at least do Playstation, lotta good games for that.
The big issue for you is RAM, I think, as the internet is so flash intensive nowadays. I'm on a gig of RAM, and a 2ghz Celeron, and Crunchbang Linux, and right now with a few pages open in Chromium, and music playing off youtube, I'm using over 500 megs of RAM.
So I'd say use it for emulators, and yeah. Or jukebox, as other people have said. I've done the emulator thing with lots of old laptops, and it at least makes them useful. I ran NES emulators no problem on that Toshiba in DOS, and that's a computer you'd think has zero practical function anymore.
15 Jun 2012, 2:33 pm
