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Ask HN: Fun things to do with old laptops?
9 points by kyro on May 13, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
I have an old PowerBook G4 (1.66ghz / 1.5gb ram / 70gb drive) and an old small Sony laptop (1.ghz centrino / 512mb ram / 40gb drive / built-in camera). I'd really like to do something neat with them, so I'm open to ideas of what to do.



They make nice little servers and have a built in "UPS". asterisk, nfs, dns, dhcp, backups etc.

How about a carputer?


what's a carputer?


In short a computer in the car. I had always thought the idea of pulling up my driveway and loading MP3s to my car via wifi would be pretty sweet. You could also throw in GPS, movies, or any other linux based app.


Mobile p2p a la Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe.

Mix wardriving with a way of getting cheap secondhand laptops, and you could have an interesting market.

http://craphound.com/est/?page_id=1574


give them to your underfunded local school.


Run Haiku!




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