7 ways to reuse your old laptop

8. Turn it into a downloading machine. Leave it on overnight to download during night surfing times. It uses little power and is quiet. Also keeps the bad stuff away from your main PC.
 
Gaz{M} said:
8. Turn it into a downloading machine. Leave it on overnight to download during night surfing times. It uses little power and is quiet. Also keeps the bad stuff away from your main PC.
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I have actually done this, then dump the content to the NAS and plex from there:whistle:
 
9. Home Automation - With something like OpenHab, pimatic and also a MQTT Broker. You can also get one of those cheap usb dvrs and install Motion for your security cameras.
 
Using my old laptop as a paper weight...no software required :)
 
Gaz{M} said:
8. Turn it into a downloading machine. Leave it on overnight to download during night surfing times. It uses little power and is quiet. Also keeps the bad stuff away from your main PC.
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I've got an old MacBook Air doing this as well as acting as my plex server.

gregmcc said:
Even better - use a pi for this.
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How is that better than repurposing an old machine? :confused:

Absinth said:
Using my old laptop as a paper weight...no software required :)
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You know... you could use a pi for this... :p
 
bwana said:
I've got an old MacBook Air doing this as well as acting as my plex server.
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Same here, using old laptop to download and be a plex server. It is inside the room where the router is, so out of sight out of mind (using remote access on it).
 
You can use a pi for some of those things but an old laptop is "free".
 
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