Thread 105717449

The Dell Inspiron 9300

2GHz Intel Pentium M CPU
2GB of DDR2 RAM

Released in 2005 for ~$2,858

How would you upgrade this beast of a machine for 2025?

https://www.macdat.net/laptops/dell/inspiron/9300.php

>>105717449 (OP)
Upgrade it to the trash

>>105717449 (OP)
You can put an ssd in it and install the newest 32 bit OS that still supports the hardware.

>>105717449 (OP)
>SSD
>Debian

>>105717449 (OP)
I still have the better version, the XPS M170. It also had three RGB zones and a 7800 GTX.

I'd go back to that era.

>>105717449 (OP)
4gb of ram and an ssd is about all you can do. it wont recognize any newer wifi cards I have tried in mine so you are stuck with wired internet..
also
Remember it's only 32bit so you need to run a 32bit OS i run mx linux.

>>105717449 (OP)
>Inspiron
these were always the bottom of the barrel low poorfag brands together with ideapad, pavilion, acers, amilo, and such garbage

>>105720230
Inspirons were actually quite good until about 2005. Yes, bottom of thr barrel.poorfag brand, but not 5x overpriced child's.toy tier. They were totally good enough for business use back then, and super cheap.

>>105720360
>good enough for business use
Nope
Businesses always got Latitudes Thinkpads and Elitebooks

>>105717449 (OP)
>proprietary power brick
>proprietary everything
>defective displays
>no SATA
Into the trash.