Howdy DIYers,
I happened across a lovely dell inspirion 8500. They just don’t design laptops like this anymore.
Now, it’s very old. It has RAM in the megabytes, so not really usable these days. I’m wondering if anybody has put a new motherboard or somehow upgraded this or a similar laptop to be decent but still keep the shell.
Do this + one of the ultralight Linux distros like puppy or similar and it’d fucking rip
At least until you encounter the modern web. My 2012 medium to high end gaming laptop sometimes struggles with all the bloat…