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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I'm conserving to a fault (ran my '86 Mitsubishi until June of this year) but I've<br>finally learned my lesson about really old laptops. My Mitsubishi was better <br>than a newer car--smaller, lighter, got better gas mileage, and I could tie stuff <br>to the roof without worrying about scratches or dents. Old laptops are slow <br>and there's always the danger of the HDD giving out. Your Thinkpad is probably <br>a T40--1.5 GHz or so with a 20 GB HDD--and if it has Windows on it, that expensive <br>software is probably its greatest asset. I'd recommend conserving your copies of<br>Word, PowerPoint, and Excel on your old machine and investing your precious time <br>in a newer machine. If you watch on Ebay you can get a 2.6 GHz T400 with no hard <br>drive for $60 or so, and put in a brand new 500 GB drive for another $65 (or a 100 <br>GB solid state drive for $100).<br><br><br><br><div>> From: oded@ccrma.Stanford.EDU<br>> To: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU<br>> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 04:37:05 -0700<br>> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] install planet on old laptop<br>> <br>> I have an old thinkpad (10 years) that is lying unused. I am considering whether <br>> it is worth trying to install FC18/19on it to (a) test run it and (b) to have <br>> planetccrma option in my office without having to carry laptop back and forth. <br>> Would current fedora possibly run on an old machine or is it a non-starter? If <br>> anyone has a similar experience it would be good to hear what the effort might <br>> be like before I embark on something useful but not essential.<br>> Thanks<br>> Oded<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> PlanetCCRMA mailing list<br>> PlanetCCRMA@ccrma.stanford.edu<br>> http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/planetccrma<br></div> </div></body>
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