such a machine does have some uses as i've seem many machines used with kids and small home / office machines just for basic storage...
other small games are good to, sim tower, road rash and otehr basic games will work good
also if you set it up and formatted and follow a tutorial to get the most out of the machine you can have a decent little laptop...
how to optimise a computer:
http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5787
I've inherited an old Acer Pentium I (800Mhz) laptop and I'm trying to figure out what to do with this thing.
Can anybody recommend some uses for an old laptop besides word processing and playing minesweeper? ![]()

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