Due to unfortunate circumstances (me dropping the laptop) I have now ended up with a half broken laptop that has a broken screen and a dying battery. I could repair it, however, I don’t wanna bother as I’m very likely gonna be getting a new one soon.

The laptop itself still works fine, however the broken screen and dying battery make it pretty much useless as a laptop and I already have a home lab NAS thing, so I’m kinda out of ideas on what to do with it. Any ideas?

Here are the specs:

CPU: i5-8300h

GPU: intel HD830/GTX1050ti

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 128GB SSD

  • Teon@kbin.social
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    4 months ago

    Install a Linux Distro. Connect to external monitor, plug power into wall.
    Use it for a dedicated torrenting machine or use it as a test machine for whatever you like. If you kill it, whatever.
    Otherwise I would just take that SSD out and recycle the machine.