I found a pair of 2010 Acer laptops at the recycling center. Let's see if we can make these machines useful in 2014! #acer #pentium #windows10 #reducereuserecycle #pentium
As noted, here are the two little fellas being put to good use: kzitem.info/news/bejne/lnuP32eZk5mnrXY
@laurencejohnson4106
4 ай бұрын
Good finds and those laptops can handle a maximum of 8 gig of ram.. I have an Acer Aspire 5738Z which has a 2 GHz., Pentium dual core processor and 8 gig of ram., and a 256 gig ssd., and it works well with Linux Mint Mate installed.
@jonobst
4 ай бұрын
Probably a cheap upgrade these days as well! Biggest shortcoming for me in these machines is the graphics, which sadly there isn't an upgrade path for.
@dave4shmups
4 ай бұрын
Great video! I wonder which Linux distro would work best on these laptops? Just out of curiosity. From what I’ve heard on KZitem, the desktop Pentium Ds ran pretty hot, but I don’t know about these mobile ones. I think the Pentium D was kind a stopgap solution from Intel before their Core 2 Duo CPUs were released.
@laurencejohnson4106
4 ай бұрын
@@jonobst Yes, 4 gig ddr3 modules are cheap and the graphics are okay for basic tasks.
@laurencejohnson4106
4 ай бұрын
@@dave4shmups Linux Mint Mate is the distro which is installed on my Acer laptop, but Zorin also works well enough.
@jonobst
4 ай бұрын
@@dave4shmups the air coming out of these guys when idling is definitely warm - so the amount of power they turn into heat is not insignificant. I think Lubuntu might not be too bad on these guys, Windows 10 seems snappy enough.
@jaydub8085
4 ай бұрын
Wouldn't mind having one of those to run a local Linux server. Can't be THAT bad. Better than my laptop... None at all!
@VenomTNT64
4 ай бұрын
I had the AMD version of these Acer laptops about 10 years ago, it was a model 5552-3691. It was very clearly a cheap consumer laptop from the time with an Athlon II P340, not that great of a plastic build, pretty awful and quiet speakers (the grills on the upper palmrest are a lie), and a hard drive and battery that were shot only three years into its previous life. But I loved using that laptop in the time that I had it since it could actually play Minecraft at the time, unlike my old Dell Latitude D620 which had a pretty slow Vista install and wouldn’t even start Minecraft at all. In the context of being owned by a 12 year old in 2014, it felt worlds better and more modern than the Latitude D620 - mostly due to the ATI Radeon HD 4250 integrated graphics at least being somewhat competent - especially when your opponent is Intel GMA 950. It’s probably the most I enjoyed using a piece of crap laptop (not as in old, but one that was somewhat low end when it was new), and I’d be hardpressed to have an experience like that again hahahaha.
@jonobst
4 ай бұрын
That's wonderful! Some of these machines felt like the best thing ever to their original owners - love to hear it!
@adwaitagnome
4 ай бұрын
I had a similar machine (5733Z) which I ran GNU/Linux on.
@jonobst
Ай бұрын
Pretty decent little GNU/Linux machine I bet!
@fra4455
4 ай бұрын
Great✌
@Djdhevsbisbdjdbsisb
4 ай бұрын
O M G ACER!
@WildEuphoricEnergy
2 ай бұрын
Do you think though laptops would support a CPU upgrade, as you might be able to get a Core 2 Duo T9000 series in there for faster performance
@jonobst
2 ай бұрын
Not a Core 2, at the very least the pin arrangements are different, but also the rest of the board lacks the support infrastructure that the Core 2 would need.
@WildEuphoricEnergy
23 күн бұрын
@@jonobstI mean maybe a faster Pentium perhaps.
@jonobst
22 күн бұрын
@@WildEuphoricEnergy potentially, but i think the processor is soldered to the board and while i've wanted to learn how to reball chips, I haven't gotten that skill yet!
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