Friend of mine got an extra laptop that usually go on ebay for about 80 bucks or less on a regular basis.
It looked more or less like this:
Dell lappy
if you are forgiving enough of it being an older i5 these tend to be pretty competent if you put an ssd and bump them to 8gb of ram. (no they will not do heavy gaming, but as a daily driver to get things done they make due)
however given that boredom is a hell of a thing... we decided to do some reading and instead of windows we took a different approach:
it all works rather shockingly well. pretty amusing for something that would probably would have ended up in a dust bin sooner rather than later.
It looked more or less like this:
Dell lappy
if you are forgiving enough of it being an older i5 these tend to be pretty competent if you put an ssd and bump them to 8gb of ram. (no they will not do heavy gaming, but as a daily driver to get things done they make due)
however given that boredom is a hell of a thing... we decided to do some reading and instead of windows we took a different approach:
it all works rather shockingly well. pretty amusing for something that would probably would have ended up in a dust bin sooner rather than later.