Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl issues.
Some more photos:
The Superior Lemmy Experience
33 Comments
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 2y
Ill admit it is cool but as a zoomer i will never understand the millenial desire to make a computer look like this by choice
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 29 pts · 2y
Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn't look amazing
thomask@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 pts · 2y
IrfanView, now that's the good stuff
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
Ok your desktop goes fucking hard, im just very particular about my browsing experience
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 13 pts · 2y
I obviously dont use a 24 years old OS as my daily driver. I just love to play around with a OS thats older than me
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Yo is the a gamecube emulator????
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
Nope. Only have n64 and snes atm. Dont think this laptop would run gc at a playable framerate.
Edit: In case you are talking about classicube: Thats a rewrite(afaik) of one of the alpha versions of Minecraft
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Damn, i miss gamecube and was hoping youd tell me it was a good one so i didnt have to go looking myself
eRac@lemmings.world · 4 pts · 2y
Dolphin is the main GC/Wii emulator. It works great on a modern-ish computer, but you can't really run it on GC-era hardware.
andrew@radiation.party · 1 pts · 2y
Classicube is pretty sick
prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y
It's the Lilac color scheme that really makes it - we had that on my family's first PC and classic Win UIs don't look quite right to me without it.
dacat@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y
Nice! If you aren't already, you should use the win2k kernelex.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
How does one install that? My japanese isnt the best
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
This doesn't look amazing
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
everyone has a different taste I guess
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 2y
Sir, this is the retro computing community.
Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 2y
We didn’t grow up on iPads. shrug
JayDee@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
I think it deals with familiarity defining personal aesthetic? You grow up within a space, and the trends of that space become the norm, and within that norm there's a sweet spot that's 'cool'.
Every generation that grows up in a dramatically different aesthetic space thus ends up with completely different aesthetics from one another.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Oh for sure, i didnt mean to imply that it was objectively bad. Just not for me
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Make a computer look like what? Windows 2000?
ptz@dubvee.org · 15 pts · 2y
As one should always do xD
I am a die-hard Linux user, but damn if I don't miss Windows 2000. It was minimalist, stable, and got the job done.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
I initially tried to run debian 12 with xfce on it but it was horribly slow (looked like a gpu driver issue, didnt care enough to troubleshoot) so I decided to go the win2k route
ptz@dubvee.org · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah, I've never had a good experience with Linux on any Peintium 4 (though II and III worked great). The last time I tried was on an old P4 IBM ThinkCenter. Like you said, could be GPU, but even non-graphics tasks were sluggish on it.
Random_internet_user@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2y
2 bucks ? its a steal .
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
Yeah. Was really suprised it worked without problems
Random_internet_user@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2y
I am happy for you my guy/gal
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y
With 1024 megs of ram I guess you'll be able to run roytam1's new browsers (K-Meleon, NewMoon27/28, IceApe-UXP, etc) using Win2K extended kernel as well. (win2k.org)
Psythik@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Man I'm getting old. The PCs from my teen years are now considered retro. To me, retro computing is pre-MSDOS.
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Why does it look like you're running RES??
addison@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
It's this frontend that makes Lemmy look like old Reddit.
Landless2029@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Thank you. I caught the URL and tested it already. Just forgot my follow up.
I didn't know old.lemmy was made to look like RES for reddit. Neat.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
RES?
addison@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
Reddit Enhancement Suite.