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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Agree re the laptops being junk. The P5
could likely be made to run modern versions of most things with
Gentoo Linux (my usual environment) but it would be a painful
experience. It would need an unusually high amount of RAM for that
vintage to be able to run a browser in some DE; 1GiB would put you
in paging territory and you'd want to dedicate a whole 'nother
drive on its own controller for your swap partition. Could make a
pretty good router with higher-end NICs; I used a P/100 as a
router for years here.<br>
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As for the AMDs, you might have better luck. I have an AMD X2
rated a little underneath your BE 4250 (I use it for video ripping
and transcoding) but yours uses about half the power.<br>
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On 9/4/17 11:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:EDE95EC5-4E8B-4DE2-8E02-7C4E8B139BF4@gmail.com">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).<br>
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New gear has such a performance to wattage improvement the power
savings almost pay for the upgrade over the lifespan. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On September 4, 2017 10:22:14 AM EDT,
Narahari 'n' Savitha <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com"><savithari@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">I am sure you all have faced this.
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<div>I have 5 machines at home (3 desktops and 2 laptops at
home that are lying dumb not doing anything.</div>
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<div>AMD cpu AM2+ BE 2450</div>
<div>AMD cpu AM2+ (dont know proc name)</div>
<div>Pentium 5 old CPU based machine, not sure what do even
do with this, junk it ?</div>
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<div>Pentium i5 old generation laptop with display taken <a
href="http://out.es" moz-do-not-send="true">out.es</a></div>
<div>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).</div>
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<div>Any inputs ?</div>
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<div>-N</div>
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