Dell XPS M1530
Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (Dual Core @ 2.2GHz)
2GB DDR2-667MHz Memory
Nvidia 8600M GT
There's a bit of sentimental value here since it took me through my engineering degree & masters 10 years ago. There was a lot of typing done on it, you can see the worn hand marks. It was also the machine that started me dabbling with Linux to being with - openSUSE, Ubuntu, a few other distros and finally Debian. It was always a very Linux friendly machine - I would have primarily ran Lenny & Squeeze on it back during college.
I had tried out Windows 10 on it just as an experiment last year, but it's just too slow to be in any way usable.
So a few days ago, I decided to try out Stretch with Xfce on it. I figured Buster might be a bit too much for such an old machine, but Stretch ran quite well. It was no powerhouse in the sense that it could hang if you try to do too much at once, but for a basic internet browsing, accessing my home openvpn server when away, watching movies & listening to music machine it was fine. So much better than Windows 10 actually.
I upgraded it to Buster and that runs equally well on it with Xfce. Thanks to Debian I actually have a functional & usable laptop once more. I was thinking about looking a new cheap laptop up for when I'm away from home, but now I genuinely don't have to.
Thank you Debian!
