<html><head></head><body>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><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 4, 2017 10:22:14 AM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">I am sure you all have faced this.<div><br /></div><div>I have 5 machines at home (3 desktops and 2 laptops at home that are lying dumb not doing anything.</div><div><br /></div><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><div><br /></div><div>Pentium i5 old generation laptop with display taken <a href="http://out.es">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><div><br /></div><div>Any inputs ?</div><div><br /></div><div>-N</div></div>
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