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[–] utopianfiat 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The battery is usually long gone by the time it becomes a server though.

Really old laptops have PCMCIA slots too that you can hook into newer interfaces. I used a PCMCIA eSATA card for a laptop NAS!

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The battery is usually long gone by the time it becomes a server though.

Absolutely. I still have my laptop from high school, and it's battery has been long gone. The screen is on its last legs.

Maybe it will be a server one day, but for now it's my DnD laptop. Sucks a bit when somebody bumps the power cord and the battlemap turns off. But it's still limping by.