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The oldest daily driver!!

A topic by Hodslate created Aug 02, 2024 Views: 268 Replies: 16
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Who here has the oldest daily driver PC? 

What's the limit 80s,90s?

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My current one is a refurb, originally manufactured in 2008. I own it since 2020, when it replaced a 2005-era system. It would be very hard for me to go any lower than that nowadays.

That's awesome. What are the specs?

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Core 2 Quad with 4GB of RAM.

Nice one still definitely useable today 

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Yeah, though Debian 12 is pushing it.

Never used Linux but I know if plenty of 20+ year old machines still running it

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For daily use. I would say the limit is 2010, before that it is difficult to use unless it is for a specific function.


That I can use on a daily basis, I have a MSI GE 65 from 2012, 2.3 GHz pentium 7 (3rd generation) with an Nvidia 660m, I have it with Ubuntu and it responds well to perform daily tasks today (upgrade RAM and change HDD for a SSD). Unfortunately it has started to give problems, it turns off randomly and I suspect it is the motherboard, so it does not have much useful life left.

I have an Acer C100 with Windows XP tablet edition, I think it used a Pentium III mobile. The computer is from 2005 or so and due to the OS and limited hardware, it cannot be used today.

Non PC, I still have and use a "palm zire" as a graphic calculator, which must be from the early 2000s.

That's some cool tech there. Good job holding onto them. 

That NVIDIA 660m was a decent chip. Would still go alright on less demanding stuff

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OMG, yours still works? I wore out the screen on my Tungsten E2 until it became unusable and I had to set it aside. Got 15 years of use out of that machine. My EeePC 701 still works fine, running Haiku, but it's been a while since I actually used it for anything.

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I have 3 palms, all working, a palm IIIx, the "zire" and a lifedrive.

I also have a HP jornada 620 with winCE, although it turns on and the keyboard works fine, the touch screen died.


I was always interested in trying an Eee PC, but it was more of a fetish than a necessity, jajaja.

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hi

i do not understand the question "oldest daily driver PC" ?

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It means, how old is your main PC?

ah thanks

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Not quite my daily driver, but when I go to Amiga events I take my 2008 white MacBook with me that's running Linux Mint. It's useful for downloading Amiga disk images onto and then transferring them over to the Amiga. I do occasionally use it for daily tasks if I don't want to sit at my desk. It's not speedy, but gets the job done.

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That's awesome I have that same style MacBook but it's the mid 2009 (last pre unibody) with the NVIDIA graphics not the X3100 Intel. I use it as my main computer. I created every single game I've made on itch.io was created on it. I'm currently using it on and off for a course I'm doing via correspondence. Has windows 7 and Mac os 10.11. 

I had a G4 PowerBook and Early 06 Intel core duo iMac before this and prior to that a G5 iMac.