What to Do With Boat Anchors

You know the ones - those squirrelly old laptops that are hopelessly out of date and will never ever be capable of running Vista (just in case you really wanted to). I happen to have several of these mini-boxen lying around, including a trio of HP Ombibooks. They were capable of running XP without too many issues and they were light enough to carry around easily. Nice little machines, all in all. One of them belonged to my daughter, who finally got absolutely frustrated with the constant need to clear virus garbage and the like off the machine, and decided at long last that she was willing to give up on Windows and brave the world of the Penquin. It probably didn’t help matters that her screen was in the process of dying.

Out of three old Omnibooks, virtually identical, I’mangd to get two working properly, after swapping around some memory and the screen on one. Both machines are now running with 256MB RAM and have 40 GB harddrives with PIII processors - they are, basically, typical older laptops. As such, they’re worthless for running much of anything on the Windwos side, but they can be used for many of the Linux distributions. Both of these machines are now happily running Fedora 10 and performing well.

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