Hey, Nibby!

"TheRealBicycleBuck" (therealbicyclebuck) 04/10/2020 at 16:20 • Filed to: None

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What would you do with these?

That’s an Inspiron 530 on t he left and an Optiplex GX-270 on the right .

speedy964 > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/10/2020 at 16:44

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They belong in a museum and so do you . The black one was a piece of crap when I was in high school almost a decade ago. The silver one looks like it has a first-gen i3 that makes it pretty much useless.

For context on the first sentence

MonkeePuzzle > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/10/2020 at 16:50

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I have ideas

speedy964 > MonkeePuzzle 04/10/2020 at 16:56

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Is that a C ylon from Battlestar Galactica?

MonkeePuzzle > speedy964 04/10/2020 at 17:03

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no, it’s a Dell Inspiron 330

TheRealBicycleBuck > speedy964 04/10/2020 at 17:12

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I may be getting old and these probably belong in a museum, but the computers were in my mom’s house, so don’t be too hard on me! :)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > speedy964 04/10/2020 at 17:31

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The white one has a Core 2 Duo....I would say far from useless though, Core 2 Duos are still perfectly fine with Win10 for everyday basic stuff like Netflix, Youtube, email, etc, etc as long as they have a fairly usable amount of RAM (4GB) and an OK video card.

Would run even better with Linux on it too considering that Linux works better on older hardware than Win10 does...though Win10 actually isn’t bad!

I know because I use a Core 2 Duo 3.2Ghz desktop with 6GB RAM and  an old Radeon HD3850 1GB video card as a Media Center PC running Linux Mint 19.3 hooked up to our living room TV for watching movies and surfing the net and the like when I am relaxing on the couch and it is 100% perfectly usable for that!

facw > speedy964 04/10/2020 at 17:59

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Meanwhile, my job at the time refused to buy the black Dells because they wouldn’t look right with our white/beige monitors... So we got obsolete white ones instead.

Nibby > TheRealBicycleBuck 04/10/2020 at 18:22

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the silver one is a great XP gaming rig and the black one... well it’s a P4 so nothing useful there... and it probably has swollen caps. i’d scrap everything in it except the HD if it works and floppy drive... reuse the case for another PC. it can be done but it involves work