Linked by Richard White on Tue 15th Mar 2005 11:21 UTC
My basement is like a mortuary with the remains of computers all lying in state, waiting and hoping for a new lease on life. But what is there to do with the K6s, the Celerons, and Pentiums of the past. It seems nothing short of a miracle would bring these ghosts back to life.
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Is it really "cheaper" to have this old hardware performing simple tasks such as firewalling?
My router w/ built in firewall uses much less power than any PC I could build to do the same thing. My router won't serve web pages and has the processing power of an egg, but I like that it does its thing with low electrical power requirements.
I also like that I don't have to wait for my radio to "boot up" after I turn it on. So why would I want an MP3 player jukebox that does?
I don't believe that older computers are worthless, but I also don't believe they should be transformed into every device that requires a computation.
My every-day computer only runs @ 533 MHz. I use this computer to do everything from browse the web to creating webpages and photoshoping professional photography. I also have a "pc graveyard" of sorts that I often wonder what I'm going to do with it all. I don't want to throw it out, but I also don't want to pay to run it as a firewall.
Note: This comment typed on a 533 MHz, 128 MB computer running win98. My primary (and fastest) unit.