• Desktop for July birthday, what to do with laptop?
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Towards the end of July, I'm finally getting a gaming rig, and I was wondering what I should do with my current laptop. It isn't exactly state-of-the-art, so I was wondering what I should do with it. If I can't come up with anything, I could always just keep it as a music player or delete all my shit and give it to my 9 year old brother, but the disc drive isn't being detected by it. Also, off topic, could I get an OS (Win7) and do a clean wipe/installation of Win7 on my laptop? Or would I have to get an OS specially made for a laptop? I have a key for Win7.
Laptops use the same OSes that desktops do...
[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;20988091]Laptops use the same OSes that desktops do...[/QUOTE] Just making sure they don't need a certain version, for power detection and the wireless. It's a Toshiba laptop.
[QUOTE=G71tc4;20988084]Towards the end of July, I'm finally getting a gaming rig, and I was wondering what I should do with my current laptop. It isn't exactly state-of-the-art, so I was wondering what I should do with it. If I can't come up with anything, I could always just keep it as a music player or delete all my shit and give it to my 9 year old brother, but the disc drive isn't being detected by it. Also, off topic, could I torrent an OS (Win7) and do a clean wipe/installation of Win7 on my laptop? Or would I have to get an OS specially made for a laptop?[/QUOTE] Nice Edit.
[QUOTE=Sir_takeslot;20988121]Nice edit.[/QUOTE] I have a key, didn't want people getting the wrong idea.
you could send it to me.
Well say you have a key in the OP then. You have until July too think about it. Personally, I would give it to your brother, if he does something for you. Not too much though. [editline]05:22PM[/editline] Or give me the laptop. I would pay postage, just need proof it works.
That's why I wanted to see if I could wipe the hard drive on this safely and still make it functioning as a laptop. I could find [B]some[/B] use for it.
Give it to your brother, help teach him responsibility. Just make him like do some dishes or something. Don't just hand it to him.
Install Linux.
You could run a small server off of it with Linux?
Make it your backup. Just in case shit happens to your desktop. Or use it when you go to a friend's house.
[QUOTE=G71tc4;20988217]That's why I wanted to see if I could wipe the hard drive on this safely and still make it functioning as a laptop. I could find [B]some[/B] use for it.[/QUOTE] Wipe shit, install new OS. Depending on it's performance you still might wanna go with XP, alternatively Ubuntu. It's always cool to have a computer to carry around, as example for school or when going on train/car/bus for a long time. Of course a netbook would be the better thing for that job but you already got this. You can also use it as a server and host game servers and crap. That'd be pretty ideal seeing as a laptop isn't usually as loud and power consuming as a desktop.
[QUOTE=quacles;20988434]Give it to your brother, help teach him responsibility. Just make him like do some dishes or something. Don't just hand it to him.[/QUOTE] My brother broke all of my gameboys, I need to be 100% sure I have absolutely no other use for this thing, and it looks like I do. [editline]03:11PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Tu154M;20991870]Wipe shit, install new OS. Depending on it's performance you still might wanna go with XP, alternatively Ubuntu. It's always cool to have a computer to carry around, as example for school or when going on train/car/bus for a long time. Of course a netbook would be the better thing for that job but you already got this. You can also use it as a server and host game servers and crap. That'd be pretty ideal seeing as a laptop isn't usually as loud and power consuming as a desktop.[/QUOTE] It came with Vista installed on it, would it be good to run Win7?
[QUOTE=G71tc4;20991940]My brother broke all of my gameboys, I need to be 100% sure I have absolutely no other use for this thing, and it looks like I do. [editline]03:11PM[/editline] It came with Vista installed on it, would it be good to run Win7?[/QUOTE] If it runs Vista it will definitely run Windows 7.
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