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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostGive it to a bloke at PC World and watch as your pop career implodes!
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Originally posted by DS23 View Postmost schools will take whatever funds they can and charity events is one of the ways of getting them. i've been thinking of donating some of my time rather than equipment...
Just be ready for a frosty response at first though... The rules and fall out etc about working with kids has ruined the casual labour type thing.
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Give it to a bloke at PC World and watch as your pop career implodes!
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most schools will take whatever funds they can and charity events is one of the ways of getting them. i've been thinking of donating some of my time rather than equipment...
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostGive it to a local charity run school/pre-school and let someone make good use of it.
You know it's the right thing to do.......
I did with one of my old ones and other IT junk (printers, monitors etc). Even went back to open day and they were using it to show what the kids do with computers..
To say I was as pleased as punch was a major understatement!!!
Do it do it do it.........
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Give it to a local charity run school/pre-school and let someone make good use of it.
You know it's the right thing to do.......
I did with one of my old ones and other IT junk (printers, monitors etc). Even went back to open day and they were using it to show what the kids do with computers..
To say I was as pleased as punch was a major understatement!!!
Do it do it do it.........Last edited by northernladuk; 5 March 2010, 16:31.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostPut linux on it, if you like that sort of thing.Originally posted by Pondlife View PostYup WHS.
Then you can put it on a shelf and leave it downloading torrents or as a machine you can upload files to using ssh or similar when on the move/at clients etc.
Either that or Solaris...
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Keep it as an emergency spare.
Use it to download movies, music etc
Donate it to your parents or an elderly neighbour or charity
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Originally posted by Flubster View PostI don't having a play but without sounding [too] dumb, what's that going to give me in terms of functionality? Can I still run M$ Office applications?
More info here: http://www.openoffice.org/
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Originally posted by Flubster View PostI don't having a play but without sounding [too] dumb, what's that going to give me in terms of functionality? Can I still run M$ Office applications?
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I don't having a play but without sounding [too] dumb, what's that going to give me in terms of functionality? Can I still run M$ Office applications?
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What to do with a spare laptop
I've got a old Acer 1360 (don't laugh) knocking about and I'm not sure what to do with it. It's been running like a dog recently, so I wiped it last night (it was running XP Pro) and installed Windows 7.
I only really use it for updating the odd document, surfing or reading emails whilst my main PC is running some length database updates, but I'm wondering if it could be set to better use.
I subscribe to MAPS so have a 'wealth' of the usual M$ OS and applications. Lappy spec is not great (40Gb disk, 512Mb RAM, AMD Sempron 2800+ @ 1.6GHz) but for the infrequent use, it's been fine.
Apart from resigning it to a dusty place under the desk, any suggestions for what I could do with it, or should I just leave it with Windows 7 with Office and have it as a ad-hoc machine?Tags: None
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