What to do with an EEEPC 701

[elwing]

I've got an old eeePC 701 that I stopped to use and was replaced with a tablet for its previous use.

Now I've got an eeePC sitting here and doing nothing...

Any interesting idea on what to do with it?

 

[ekianjo]

I've got an old eeePC 701 that I stopped to use and was replaced with a tablet for its previous use.

Now I've got an eeePC sitting here and doing nothing...

Any interesting idea on what to do with it?

a mail server ?

 

[ibisum]

Use it to mirror repo.openpandora.org so you've got all the Pandora software locally that you might need.

 

[benoitb]

Mpd connected to yout sound system.


Nas.

 

[Hồng Thất Công]

Give it to me

 

[Red Ring Rico]

I use mine for server monitoring and administration, and testing programs on lower-end hardware.

 

[WizardStan]

Donate it, there are many kids that could really use even an old computer.

If you repurpose it for anything it'll just be idly consuming power doing something that your desktop is more than capable of doing without waste, I'm sure.

 

[hitbyambulance]

i would hook it up to an external HD, set it up as an externally-accessible server and disable the screen (to use less power).

 

[elwing]

too bad, at the point, all the proposal are either covered by other devices or not really needed/interesting me... and I'm afraid WizardStan is right... no other ideas?

 

[ekianjo]

too bad, at the point, all the proposal are either covered by other devices or not really needed/interesting me... and I'm afraid WizardStan is right... no other ideas?

I have one, but that's only as a learning exercise.

I have a similar config as yours and I'm not using my netbook anymore, and I plan to use it as a test machine to try to setup archlinux from scratch (i would not do that on my main machine at this stage).