What Can You Do With A 500 Mghz Celeron Computer ?

[leonidas]

I get this awesome machine on monday from my company as they are buying new ones. The thing don't even have a cd drive :lol:

[Kunal]

keep it! and wait about 50 years and sell it as antique :P

seriously just keep it or give it to a freind of your that doesnt have a pc

[SciManAl]

get a cheapo cd drive and run linux on it man!!! i have a server running off a 133mhz, the oldy computers never have heat problems, and run somehwta relaibly, and ya know you can't do anything else with it...

[leonidas]

Originally posted by Kunal@29 November 2003 - 19:32
keep it! and wait about 50 years and sell it as antique :P

seriously just keep it or give it to a freind of your that doesnt have a pc
Actually I'm giving it to my brother. I just wanna know what kind of stuff he will be able to do with it: Watching movies, web cam usage, ect...

[racer II]

Originally posted by leonidas@29 November 2003 - 19:39
Actually I'm giving it to my brother. I just wanna know what kind of stuff he will be able to do with it: Watching movies, web cam usage, ect...
he can do lots with it, dont worry about that.
Just pop in a cd drive.

[leonidas]

Originally posted by racer II+29 November 2003 - 19:41--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (racer II &#064; 29 November 2003 - 19:41)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-leonidas@29 November 2003 - 19:39
Actually I&#39;m giving it to my brother. I just wanna know what kind of stuff he will be able to do with it: Watching movies, web cam usage, ect...
he can do lots with it, dont worry about that.
Just pop in a cd drive. [/b][/quote]
I&#39;m not even sure you can plug one. I couldn&#39;t see no place for it looking the computer from the outside. The only thing I saw was a disquette drive. :lol:

[racer II]

Originally posted by leonidas+29 November 2003 - 19:46--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (leonidas &#064; 29 November 2003 - 19:46)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
Originally posted by racer II@29 November 2003 - 19:41
<!--QuoteBegin-leonidas@29 November 2003 - 19:39
Actually I&#39;m giving it to my brother. I just wanna know what kind of stuff he will be able to do with it: Watching movies, web cam usage, ect...
he can do lots with it, dont worry about that.
Just pop in a cd drive.
I&#39;m not even sure you can plug one. I couldn&#39;t see no place for it looking the computer from the outside. The only thing I saw was a disquette drive. :lol: [/b][/quote]
Lmao.
Well maybe you can make a hole in the case so you can fit a cd drive :lol:

500 mhz is enough to watch movies, surf on the web and play some games.
(if the video ram size is bigger then 1mb tho lol)

[Kunal]

Originally posted by racer II@29 November 2003 - 19:54
500 mhz is enough to watch movies, surf on the web and play some games.
(if the video ram size is bigger then 1mb tho lol)
infact if you read the topic title propaly again....




a 500 mega gigahertz cpu&#33; (hook me up brother&#33; :lol: :P :lol: )

[leonidas]

Originally posted by Kunal+29 November 2003 - 20:17--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Kunal @ 29 November 2003 - 20:17)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-racer II@29 November 2003 - 19:54
500 mhz is enough to watch movies, surf on the web and play some games.
(if the video ram size is bigger then 1mb tho lol)
infact if you read the topic title propaly again....




a 500 mega gigahertz cpu&#33; (hook me up brother&#33; :lol: :P :lol: ) [/b][/quote]
Sorry 4 that B)

[SciManAl]

dude seriosly, if you put linux on it it will be blazing, and he can surf the net, watch movies play linux games... cool stuff

[leonidas]

Ok :) . Wich version of linux then?

[lexustuner01]

throw it away&#33;

[Spicker]

lol dont throw it away

give it to me i cud use another computer sinse i only hav one

[abu_has_the_power]

dude. u should package it, and send it to africa or some small country. or better yet. send it to the riaa as a chirstmas present, but put a bomb inside. lol. or u could just send it to them and say heres an upgrade to ur dos computers and atari&#39;s . lol

[Kunal]

Originally posted by leonidas@29 November 2003 - 22:35
Ok&nbsp; :) . Wich version of linux then?
suse or red hat

@ abu, he said hes giving it to his brother....

[sage0112]

if u have absolutely no use, donate it. Theres less fortunate ppl would could use it. Its the holidays&#33;

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by sage0112@29 November 2003 - 19:00
if u have absolutely no use, donate it. Theres less fortunate ppl would could use it. Its the holidays&#33;
yea. there are many less fortunate people, the riaa for example. loll

[SciManAl]

yeah for beginners i would say red hat... stable and makes use of a computer that has little to give...

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@29 November 2003 - 18:08
dude. u should package it, and send it to africa or some small country. or better yet. send it to the riaa as a chirstmas present, but put a bomb inside. lol.
:lol: ROFL



No but serious, go put Red Hat on it, its like 40 bucks at best buy, and free online last time I checked, seeing as how you dont even have a CD drive.

[4play]

damn there is loads you could do with that pc. i would start a little home netowork.

i was gonna buy a pc about that spec so i could use a comand line version of linux and samba and have my own fileserver.

that is still a very reasonable machine for using as a workstation in a network as well try using win 2000 or linux on it.

[leonidas]

Ok thanks I&#39;ll use red hat :)

[bigdawgfoxx]

You can just use it as your ONLY computer..like me :D ..cant wait to upgrade lol

[raiserblade2003]

or u can use it as a very big paper weight :P

[Twist3r]

yeah i would also start a little home network with it :D


my own little home network is great so far i have my computer connected to my xbox with a router :D :) :D :P

[xbox_gamer7]

Originally posted by Twister@30 November 2003 - 22:12
yeah i would also start a little home network with it :D


my own little home network is great so far i have my computer connected to my xbox with a router :D :) :D :P
NICE&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; :D

[bigdawgfoxx]

Whats the point of having 2 computers networked together?

[Livy]

Originally posted by leonidas@30 November 2003 - 20:11
Ok thanks I&#39;ll use red hat :)
u would probably find it quite har to install without a cd drive, invest in a cheap cd rom. and my personal opinion would be to put windows 2000 pro on, as it easyer than linux, and drivers etc are easyer to get.

[Livy]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@30 November 2003 - 22:39
Whats the point of having 2 computers networked together?
to acces files on the other computer. and also to share internet connections.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Yeah but why the hell would one man need 2 computers? you dont need 2 internets...and you dont need to access files on another computer..when you can have them on the one your on.

[Livy]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@30 November 2003 - 23:29
Yeah but why the hell would one man need 2 computers? you dont need 2 internets...and you dont need to access files on another computer..when you can have them on the one your on.
:blink: :huh:

[bigdawgfoxx]

ook...I mean why have some files on one computer...and other files on another one..

[_John_Lennon_]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@30 November 2003 - 18:29
Yeah but why the hell would one man need 2 computers? you dont need 2 internets...and you dont need to access files on another computer..when you can have them on the one your on.


One for you, one for your sis and parents. You can also use the 2nd on to diagnose problems on the 1st one, as a backup computer, as a place to backup files, a server to test out router configurations etc etc.

There.

[benitosan]

Why have a second puter?

My old 300mhz Celeron is encoding movies all the time. Takes maybe 2 days if I&#39;m doing a 352x480 cvd.

Makes a good guinea pig. I used it to fool around with dual-booting. It now has Win98 and XP Pro on it.

Came in so late on this thread but what&#39;s the advantage of putting Redhat on it and use it as a server? I have 2 puters connected via a Linksys router. What good things would result from making the 300mhz Celeron a server in my case? Curious.