Check Crucial memory to see what the machine will support (some laptop main boards have weird, arbitrary, limits) and what specific type of memory it wants then start trolling the local stores. Posted by genial at 6:00 AM on July 17, 2008Īctually you can upgrade the RAM much less expensively if you've got some local computer stores and the time to go hunting. In my opinion that makes it certainly usable as a basic word processing, internet browsing, throwaway kinda fun laptop without having invested too much to make it usable. So for ~$130 you can make it a laptop running on 512mb with an 80gb hard drive. However, if you want it to be a file server you can get a 80gb HD for $55 (and there might be better prices out there) so that's another relatively cheap upgrade that helps make the laptop more useful.

If you are going to be using this laptop for anything other than as a server type box you never touch I would say upgrade the ram.Īs for hd space I'm a big fan of keeping very little on a computer anyway and having all your needed stuff available on a USB key, in the cloud, etc (hell, a 4gig usb key can be had for $25 these days, almost matches the size of your internal HD). I can't even imagine what a pain XP would be to use without at least 128mb. You can upgrade the memory to 512mb for $76 so I would disagree with those saying that upgrades are too expensive. Posted by Alabaster at 7:36 PM on July 16, 2008 You can essentially turn it into a super-console system (by 2002 standards), especially if you get some kind of gamepad/controller. It's worth looking into thought.Īnother option would be to go to and download a zillion old games, or to get emulators for a bunch of old game systems and fill it with games. There are also some options out there for making your own PC based DVR system (like TiVo), but I'm guessing that PC is a bit under-powered for that kind of work.

You might be able to rip DVDs and downloaded movies and pictures to it as well, and attach video-out to your TV. Network the PC so you can stream your entire library to your other computers. I think there are USB remote controls that you can get for this purpose too. Wi-Fi it and subscribe to Rhapsody To-Go or a similar subscription service in order to have a humongous listening library at your fingertips for a relatively small monthly fee. Get an inexpensive external hard drive with a few hundred GB, transfer every mp3 you own and rip every CD to it, organize them and tag them meticulously (I'd recommend Mediamonkey), and hook the audio-out to a stereo system.

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