10 year old tech, but, what a bargain!

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Socoder -> Hardware and Technology -> 10 year old tech, but, what a bargain!
Fri, 21 Apr 2023, 03:56
cyangames	10 year old tech, but, what a bargain! Grabbed an ex-business Lenovo Lappy, 2nd gen i5 with 4gb of ram, working 15.8 inch monitor and battery, a cosmetic scratch or two but nowt else from ebay for £28 the other day including postage, added an SSD and power cable for another 30 quid. Bunged linux mint on it and have been testing it out for it's main use case, which is, effectively as a web browser to handle youtube, facebook, etc. And, well, it performs really well for the price point of £60, I've only really dabbled with Slax before checking out Linux mint and, yeah, it's rather nice and friendly in comparison. Why am I putting these bits together? Mum was in need of a laptop and she explained that all it was being used for was browsing on the internet but she wanted a lappy over another ipad and after going shopping with my brother, it was all a bit pricey, around the £500 - £600 mark. Showed Mum a screen shot of the desktop last night and she loves the fact that I've set it up to have dedicated facebook and youtube buttons on the taskbar, hopefully it'll all go well on Sunday when I deliver it! -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Fri, 21 Apr 2023, 05:17
Jayenkai	That's great! Lenovo do seem to make really sturdy capable buggers. Hope your Mum loves it -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Fri, 21 Apr 2023, 05:25
cyangames	I shall let you know
Fri, 21 Apr 2023, 06:20
Pakz	I bought a 2 in 1 Lenovo ideapad a while back. Only thing wrong with it is the very low quality speakers. My older Lenovo gaming laptop was the best gaming laptop I ever had. But the thing eats electricity. The ideapad lasts up to 10 hours on battery.
Fri, 21 Apr 2023, 08:29
cyangames	Thinkpad E520 if peeps are curious about make & model -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Sat, 22 Apr 2023, 08:27
cyangames	It has passed the teenager test! Triston bunged a bunch of games on there including a marble roller, tux kart and open arena, it handled them all fine! We are also playing competitive minesweeper, ha! -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Sat, 22 Apr 2023, 08:29
Jayenkai	Bonus points for Nubbin! I love a good nubbin! (Or at least, I used to, before trackpads became half decent) -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 22 Apr 2023, 08:57
cyangames	Yessss nubbbbbiinnnnnnn ftw
Mon, 24 Apr 2023, 02:13
cyangames	Went through the lappy with Mum yesterday and it seemed to go down rather well, so, until I get a phone call about it not being great, all is well, some games, facebook, spotify, firefox and youtube. Mum was mentioning about running android things on it so I might have to see if there's an android emulator for linux mint sometime. -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Thu, 25 May 2023, 03:46
cyangames	So, Mum has had the laptop for a month now and she's all good with it, which is good news. Might hunt down a spare cheapo lappy for Mint next month. \|edit\| Found a dinky laptop on ebay which should do the job, although it doesn't have HDMI on it, VGA and audio out will do the same job essentially. Runs at an average of 14W also, which is a damn sight less than the PS4 at 87W which has mainly been used for youtube of late \|edit\| -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Thu, 25 May 2023, 04:43
Jayenkai	Three cheers for bargaininity! Cheap laptop, cheap power usage, win win!! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 25 May 2023, 04:49
cyangames	Just hope I win the auction now, well tomorrow around 3pm. If not there's other thinkpads i can check out. It's got bluetooth on it also so I should be able to sync up the PS4 joypads with it for some noice retro gamage -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Thu, 25 May 2023, 04:56
Jayenkai	Yeah, the PS4 controller's become my default when gaming on Mac/iPad of late. It's very much an everyman controller, isn't it? -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 25 May 2023, 05:13
cyangames	Aye, I was using it on my main PC again of late for some Mario Kart and it's rather handy for it, nice D-Pad, etc. I could go down the raspberry PI route but they are rare as hens teeth and these Lenovos will do the job for 8 and 16 bit stuff, dunno about N64 / Dreamcast though. Pair it up with a wireless keyboard and mouse and yeah, that would do very nicely in the living room. -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Thu, 25 May 2023, 11:10
HoboBen	cant beat a lenovo Accidently HURLED a pint of water into one once and it just carried on playing the film like nothing had happened! -=-=- blog \| work \| code \| more code
Fri, 26 May 2023, 01:02
cyangames	Hopefully that doesn't happen to this one! But yeah, resillient buggers -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Fri, 26 May 2023, 08:44
cyangames	Yess, dinky 12.5 inch Lenovo X230 for £33 gets! Average wattage is between 10-14W should pay for itself in a few months and if my daughter fully breaks her laptop she can just have this as a spare. -=-=- Web / Game Dev, occasionally finishes off coding games also!
Fri, 26 May 2023, 08:50
Jayenkai	Geese, £33!!! That's awesome.