OK, so I used to own a computer store back in 2001/2002. We tagged ourselves “The home of the $99 laptop” and kept a lot of the $99 versions around, but we primarily sold, what was at the time, a $399 laptop. The Dell Latitude CPx. I used to have tons of these things around. We probably sold an average of about 20-30 of these every month. Some time in 2003, I think, I loaned one of them to my buddy’s little sister so she could use it to write a fiction novel she was working on.
Well, she finished the novel and I just got the laptop back a few days ago. Now, I don’t really “need” another laptop, but I thought it might be fun to use this one for something. So, like all geeks, I’ve decided to drop the latest version of Ubuntu on it. Of course, a machine this old isn’t without it’s problems, chief among them is the fact that the backlight on the display no longer works, which means it will have to be hooked into and external monitor, but other than that I think it’s a great candidate for Linux box.