Especially due to their age, they’re far less likely to be stolen, but can give a child a chance at a much better education.īack to the Mac. My favorite use case is watching these old machines become developing-world computers, and giving kids in dirt poor lands, their very first machine. You can take an old Pentium II and make it into a functional Evernote client, for example.
Still, Windows Fundamentals saves old machines. NET Framework apps and other legacy-migration applications, as well as let old machines serve as thin clients and Intranet-grade web browsers. You get Internet Explorer, Remote Desktop Connection, and that’s about it. If you haven’t heard of Windows Fundamentals, it’s basically a scaled down version of Windows XP aimed to run on really old hardware. Microsoft actually offers this to corporate customers, in the form of Windows Fundamentals.
Have an old Mac? Like many, I asked Apple to follow Microsoft (for once) and offer a legacy OS for PowerPC systems, so they could continue to serve some use.