joppiesaus
5 years ago
replacing the mb seems like... replacing the entire laptop. Shame it doesn't work, cool article though
floppys-lounge
5 years ago
I used to have (well, I still have) one of those HP laptops. I suppose it wasn't a bad laptop, but at the time using it felt quite sluggish despite 4 gigabytes of memory.
bmh
5 years ago
@floppys-lounge it will benefit from an SSD although older graphics processing can struggle with day-to-day life online
bummmer i used yo have a seti at home computer! would an old xp computer run it ? i can leave that on all day
@geouniversal The SETI@home project is no longer providing work so I've switched to the einstein@home project. This and others use the BOINC software which can indeed be run on Windows XP and earlier: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/List_of_projects_by_system_requirements
VERY cool. I will donate this machine to SCIENCE
found my xp not really contributing tooo much, but it looks friggen cool. woke up this morning with a note "no cameras/scanners found" and wondering what/who was accessing that.