[ale] what to do with older PC's

[Jim Kinney]

Once my gear starts to fail, I recycle it. The laptops are junk. So is the P5. The remaining 2 machines could be usable baby servers (storage or backup with new drives).

New gear has such a performance to wattage improvement the power savings almost pay for the upgrade over the lifespan. 

On September 4, 2017 10:22:14 AM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am sure you all have faced this.
>
>I have 5 machines at home (3 desktops and 2 laptops at home that are
>lying
>dumb not doing anything.
>
>AMD cpu AM2+ BE 2450
>AMD cpu AM2+ (dont know proc name)
>Pentium 5 old CPU based machine, not sure what do even do with this,
>junk
>it ?
>
>Pentium i5 old generation laptop with display taken out.es
>Dual Core laptop, but display not cooperating, works well with external
>monitor.  May be a HTPC  or a NAS storage machine (connect all my
>drives
>with USB or PCMCIA-esata).
>
>Any inputs ?
>
>-N

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