I picked up a old Dell Latitude L400 laptop. It has one USB port I do have a floppy drive and some cd/dvd rom drives that hook into it by cable. It has a ethernet port and a PCMCIA port on it. It has a 20gb harddrive and Pentium III inside. It also has 128mb of ram in it. It came with windows 2000/Windows NT on it. I am wanting to get a internet browser to work on it. Should I install Linux or is there a internet browser that will work for it? If you say install Linux what version of Linux I have never dealt with it before.
What to do with a old Dell laptop
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getochkn
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That's even pushing the limits of what a basic linux needs to run. I hope you didn't pay anything for it, because frankly, in todays today of age, that computer won't do anything. Facebook would slow it down. Forget youtube. My 2 google chrome browser windows are using 128mb of ram jsut for them.
I don't really see anything that you can do with that, or run on it.
I don't really see anything that you can do with that, or run on it.
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I have a PIII 300Mhz Dell laptop. Win2000 or PuppyLinux, depending on what drive I put in.
It serves 1 purpose - to interface with the car OBDII serial port connector.
Yes, it can 'get online'. USB WiFi adapter. But it is disastrously slow in doing do.
If I were to try to use this for anything else, I'd end up gouging my eyes out. Or dying of boredom.
It serves 1 purpose - to interface with the car OBDII serial port connector.
Yes, it can 'get online'. USB WiFi adapter. But it is disastrously slow in doing do.
If I were to try to use this for anything else, I'd end up gouging my eyes out. Or dying of boredom.
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