TastyWheat,

My Surface Pro 3 refuses to die despite the fans giving out, and YouTube plays like shit now thanks to the potato GPU.

Still use it everyday.

nao,

So it’s able to run fanless or did you fix it somehow?

TastyWheat,

It peaks about 90 degrees C when playing YouTube videos. The fan sort of ticks every 5 seconds or so but yeah, it’s still okay.

ramenshaman,

My surface pro 3 is easily one of the most reliable computers I’ve ever had.

blind3rdeye,

My Surface 2 and Surface 3 both developed a hardware problems. :(

ThePJN,
@ThePJN@sopuli.xyz avatar

Wholesome-ness on the internet? In this economy?!

OpenStars,
@OpenStars@startrek.website avatar

It’s nice to have a purpose:-).

gibmiser, (edited )

My Zune still playing

cough hack wheeze

“Is that all you got?”

AlecSadler,

I miss my Zune. Do you seriously still have one?

gibmiser,

Yep. Mounted on the wall in my dad’s barn, playing an endless shuffle of my music from 15? Years ago.

Vex_Detrause,

I tied him up in my dad’s barn and it sings constantly

That what it sounds like.

pineapplelover,

Everybody with a Thinkpad

Agent641,

My 12 year old thinkpad is still my daily driver.

Speakers stopped working 5 years ago tho. Only BT audio out, now.

blanketswithsmallpox,

First thing that always went in every Thinkpad I’ve owned is the wireless card lol. Opposite issue for me.

MrScottyTay,

You could probably open that up pretty easy and fix that I bet

Album,
@Album@lemmy.ca avatar

T42 was instructable

PriorityMotif,
@PriorityMotif@lemmy.world avatar

T60 gang

astraeus,
@astraeus@programming.dev avatar

Looking over at my old Thinkpad X131e with those “I’m going to start a new project with you” eyes

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

All I have is a 13 year old laptop, and I use it basically all day most days. It’s plays music and movies etc with no issues. Cloud pc for gaming, which also works perfectly. It really doesn’t like youtube, though, and it sounds like a jet engine every time system and app updates start to download. Can’t afford to get anything better anyway. A friend gave it to me after it died on him and he got a new one, wasn’t hard to fix. I cried when I got it because it improved my life a lot, just being able to do basic things.

thecrotch,

Have you tried blowing out the fan? After 13 years it might be all gunked up

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, I try to keep it clean. I’m pretty sure the fan has been warped, so one of the blades drags against the housing a bit, and I don’t have the tools to open it up that much to try to fix it. It only happens at high fan speeds, though, and that doesn’t happen often enough to be truly annoying.

Toldry,
@Toldry@lemmy.world avatar

cloud pc for gaming

can you say more about that pls?

CurlyMoustache,
@CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world avatar

I use GeForce Now. It fits my needs and the games I like to play. Why pay for my own gaming rig when I can rent it and let others cover the upgrading cost?

nossaquesapao,

There are a few services that allow you to play with the actual game being rendered on remote computers, while your pc only shows the image and sends the input commands. I think the more popular ones are xcloud and geforce now. There are also a few smaller services that allow you to run anything you’d like, without limitations.

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

I use Shadow, you literally get a high-end PC you stream to any device in real time and can do whatever you want with. Other cloud gaming services only streams the games, so you can’t use mods, emulators, etc. Currently playing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on max settings, and it’s buttery smooth. I also use it for anything else that my laptop can’t handle like image and video editing, 3d modelling and rendering.

Nesola,

Have a hug!

M137,
@M137@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you, I needed that!

heero_youi,

I hope you get to get a fancy new one soon and your old laptop friend keeps chugging along as before! 🙏

ODuffer,
@ODuffer@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve got a 13 year old probook 5330m. It’s running Lubuntu, with no working battery these days, but it’s fine other than that.

haui_lemmy,

Same here. My old graphics chip wouldnt boot with anything else (I could have searched for the driver somewhere) except lxqt. Thats why I chose lubuntu.

Vex_Detrause,

First time hearing lubuntu! Thanks for mentioning it. I’ll try this on my old laptop.

haui_lemmy,

It is pretty awesome for old hardware imo. I tried 5 or six other major distros and nothing worked, inclusing mint, ubuntu, debian (I think) and so on.

akincisor,

I’m thinking of buying a Thinkpad w530 for such “geriatric” tasks

corsicanguppy,

My daily driver desktop is 8. It was $1100 back then. On it I work two ver-ry nerdy jobs.

I envy you where 10 years is a long time !

joyvio,

Meanwhile, my two-year old Celeron not being able to reliably play a FLAC file without stuttering…

nao,

Might be something else, shouldn’t even a celeron be able to handle that?

Psythik, (edited )

That’s what you get for buying a CeLOLron

LazerFX,

You mean a de-Celeron?

joyvio,

I didn’t know about how well developed the second hand market was by now, and my budget was 200 euros. I’ll try to be more careful the next time.

Psythik,

You paid €200 for a celery stick!?!?

Dude.

joyvio,

Well, I didn’t know any better back then!

pastermil,

It’s not fair to compare it to your decade-old i7

Matriks404,

Old laptops will still run pretty good if you run lightweight Linux distribution and give it some RAM upgrade and maybe SSD as well. I still wouldn’t use them as my main computer, as I’d rather have a lot better specs and ability to run Win10/Win11 flawlessly, but it’s still a good option.

Tangent5280,

Ability to run windows? Why?

minibyte,

Adobe Audition.

Sweetpeaches69,

Revit

lorty,
@lorty@lemmy.ml avatar

Video games with invasive anticheats obviously

mapleseedfall,

Familiarity mostly

KyuubiNoKitsune,

Why not? Let people run whatever they like.

Metz, (edited )

17 year old Dell here. Threw a SSD and Linux on it and that damn thing boots faster than most brand new Desktops. Absolutely enough to surf the web, listen to music, watch videos or do the usual Linux stuff (ssh, etc.). You can even somewhat game on it via sunshine/moonlight.

Sterling,

I did the same with a Dell Wyse thin client laptop I acquired from work. Upgraded the RAM, popped a larger SSD into it, and installed Debian. Thing works great for the basics and I just RDP into my desktop for more intensive tasks.

nao,

oddly wholesome

slaacaa,

I love this, so wholesome. I have a 2009 Mac mini I’m still using sometimes

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