Seven great uses for an old laptop, including headless machine to aid in downloads or backups, a speedy Linux box or the ever-popular photo frame.
February 22nd, 2008 § 0
Seven great uses for an old laptop, including headless machine to aid in downloads or backups, a speedy Linux box or the ever-popular photo frame.
Yep, old iBook plus firewire 4-bay external case plus an accumulation of old drives plus sharepoints = networked raid / backup / server solution.
It stutters a bit over wireless (b) to my other old iBook, but it plays images of DVDs that I’ve made flawlessly to the iMac over plain old ethernet. It’s a regular Fight Quest jukebox.