My wife still has a Lenovo SL500 laptop from around 2008. That came with an Intel “Centrino” chipset, and with Windows Vista – here’s a detail snapshot from my phone:
Windows Vista was way overkill for that machine, so we used it with Linux more or less right from the start. Last time I started it was exactly one month ago, and I noticed that the battery was at some 30%, so I did what I always do: charged and updated it, and put it back into the bookshelf to check for it again later.
Now, after exactly one month, I did that – and see, the battery was still at 79%:
So I updated and charged it again, and because the version of Debian changed, I did a full-upgrade. After that, and rebooting it, I checked the listing of neofetch:
So you can see, it’s a dual core processor, and the machine has 2GB main memory – my phone mentioned above is way stronger and bigger 😉 But still a nice 16:10 screen with HD (not “Full HD”) resolution, and it runs a current Debian stable just fine, although with the XFCE desktop instead of Gnome or KDE.
Reminds me of my last blog post – in case you have an older machine (not 17 years old like this here, but pre Intel’s 8th generation series), don’t just throw it away because of Win11 – it could still runs something even better, and without ads and spyware…
Again, thanks for reading.