Comments on: What to do with an old laptop? http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:05:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: passing_by http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-471917 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:17:12 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-471917
That is all I have to say.

]]> By: hansolo23 http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-400160 Tue, 31 May 2011 16:00:03 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-400160 one negative thing is that laptop can only run for 1 hour than i need to plug it on my car battery

]]> By: hansolo23 http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-400159 Tue, 31 May 2011 15:56:51 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-400159 I have an old compaq presario with a amd k6 (266mhz) neomagic 128XD with win98.
I remade it to fit in my car. In the seat next to the driver i implanted it and now my friends dont complain about standing still on the runway because i just open the storage before that seat and a laptop screen comes out with external keyboard with trackpad (all original) The laptop has a few retrogames and emulators. so they just play with it until we arrived at the destination. Too bad i couldnt have profit of that.

]]> By: Hector http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-379897 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:38:58 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-379897 I’m a collector for old laptops.Please e-mail me if you want to through out.This is for charity purposes to donate people in south america who doesn’t have a laptop. Thanks……

]]> By: T.C. http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-338479 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:28:57 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-338479 I have several ideas for the LCD’s, but need VGA to LCD controllers or micro controller to LCD circuits to make them work. Anyone know where I can find these?

]]> By: asheets http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-207314 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:36:54 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-207314 Old laptops are great for amateur radio work. I’ve got one running my APRS i-gate, and another one running my 10-meter beacon

73 de KD0GZJ

]]> By: chris26 http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-175963 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:50:53 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-175963 can someone tell me please how to use the screen of an old notebook to connect it with an old playstation?

]]> By: Myron Dahling http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-139785 Mon, 03 May 2010 16:22:07 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-139785 great information thanks

]]> By: Daisy http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-112704 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:55:41 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-112704 I was wondering if there was anyway you could take some parts out of a very old toshiba laptop, and a Dell Latitude D600, to build a new one? one has a great motherboard, the other has a good RAM and a good harddrive, and a good system. its kinda dumb, but i need a new laptop like really cheap and i came up with that idea and have no clue how to do it.

]]> By: CR http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-111441 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:17:21 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-111441 JB’s got a great idea! Set your laptop up as an emulator, so you can run all of your old favorites from your C64 days or Vic20 Amiga/ atari collecovision, intellivision days. Sweet!

I’ve got 6 old laptops all acquired from the garbage and all working and fixed. I use them for various fun things, playing around and generally I guess wasting time with them figuring out what software will work with them.

Another great idea is to learn C programming on them. I’m pretty sure any laptop will do. The frontend DevC++ should work fine. Or learn C++, they are still very common programming languages. Or pick up some learning software somewhere and let your kids play around with it. Give them a jump in the tech world.

There’s lots of things you can do. The year after those people have thrown out their laptops are probably wishing they’d held on to them … ah well … in my opinion, the day any piece of technology becomes totally useless is when the hydro shuts off. Then again there’s always solar panels heh heh heh.

]]> By: Joe Bucci http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-106401 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:32:02 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-106401 I’ve got a couple of old laptops setup as C64 machines. My old ACER 1.6 ghz 1ith 2GB RAM and 35GB Hard drive makes an EXCELLENT Commodore 64 (With the help of a few C64 emulators for XP).

I’ve got the GB64 collection, the GEOS Collection, and an “expanded” Apps collection, ALL on the ACER.

I also have an old Compaq 1247 with GREAT sound. So that’s my portable MP3 Player!

JB

]]> By: anova http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-70708 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:08:51 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-70708 If you have more than one, You could turn them into a more powerful cluster / beowulf like system.

]]> By: NOMADZX4 http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-52021 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:48:11 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-52021 what about using the screen in a snazzy slide out dual monitor setup on another older laptop…slidy..slidy!?

]]> By: AryuLimitless http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-48978 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:42:39 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-48978 If I could find the right adapters and LCD display converters, I’d hack me a Commodore 64 DTV into my old Toshiba Satellite laptop. I can’t get parts inexpensively for it, and Toshiba is so asinine in their customer service department. And, sending it in for repairs nullifies my modding!…

If anyone has suggestions on hacking the display to show the DTV stuff, contact me via e-mail.

Thanks.
Aryu Limitless
aryu.limitless@yahoo.com

]]> By: Satman http://hackaday.com/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-43114 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:50:24 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/05/22/what-to-do-with-an-old-laptop/#comment-43114 Ive used an old IBM laptop to make a digital picture frame too – video slide show http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/satmanuk/Movies will do some sort of blog description of the hows/how much soon

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