John R Pierce wrote:
> On 07/27/11 10:33 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>> The 26" 66cm television is my bedroom is 14
>> years old.
>
> and probably draws triple the power and heat as a modern LCD screen, as
> well as taking 2 feet or more of depth.
>
And less than a plasma screen, with the addition that if you turn it off,
it does *not* draw power.
Oh, and isn't hundreds of dollars that the OP may not want to spend.
>
> re; the 6 yr old laptop... I in fact have a old pentium-M PATA laptop
> myself. I use it almost exclusively as a remote terminal and due to its
> old hardware, max 2GB ram, etc, would only run a lightweight older OS
> suitable for it.
Yeah, this is *linux*: it runs on anything....
mark