Thursday, November 28, 2013

DEATH-PROOF your old XP netbook: 5 OSes to bring it back to life

My son’s school has decreed that next year he’ll need a computer of some sort.

Mr 12 wants an iPad. I want him to use the 2009-vintage Lenovo S10e Netbook gathering dust in the study, because it’s already been paid for. The netbook is also fit for purpose: it was the very model handed out in Australian schools circa 2009.

It’s also alive and kicking. That Redmond will turn it into a curiosity next April rankles, so I want to find something useful for it to do.

Mr 12 scoffs at such sensible arguments and cares little for the family budget. All he knows is that the single core 1.6Ghz ATOM N270-powered machine with its 2GB of RAM, 150GB hard disk and oddly proportioned 1024 x 576-pixel 10.1-inch screen runs like treacle.

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