Is it worth keeping it alive ....

[CrazyPerson101]

Ok so I have this Gateway Solo 9500 , It is 13 years old . It was made on 2/23/01 at 9:41:16 . It has 256 mbs of ram , it has a 30 gb harddrive , it was 3000 dallors when it was new. It runs great except if you bump into it , the display drivers quit working. It doesn't have a rollback driver and It won't update. Is it worth the time to keep it running , I have fixed most of its registry issues and it runs to the best of its ablilties. What are you thoughts , opinions, etc. ?

[Kacey]

Well, you could always get a new computer, and turn the old one into a VirtualMachine... That is, if you really value the information on the computer.

[CrazyPerson101]

Well, you could always get a new computer, and turn the old one into a VirtualMachine... That is, if you really value the information on the computer.


True , I did get a new one for free , but I do like my old pc, I took everything off of it but Im thinking on keeping it as a backup computer just in case but Idk if its worth keeping. I have everything set on preformance because it has gotten that bad. Safe mode doesn't work half the time so I use reagular mode or debugging mode and it runs fine till someone bumps into it

[Hypers]

I feel like you should just leave it unless you really need it. Its so old its remarkable it still mostly works. Its also not really worth fixing up since even if you fix everything and max it out it still will be very slow compared to even the cheapest computers of today.

[Typhlosion]

It's always a backup, I suppose. It's so jurassic that only the owner can give value to this computer, so I don't see why undo it since it's 100% your loss. But it's not worth fixing either, the cheapest computer you can buy nowadays is at least double better than your old PC.

[justarandomteen]

I dont think its really worth it to keep up the machine. You could just buy a new computer, and use a thumb drive to salvage some info off of the old computer. It really is just to slow and weak to keep up and running, and it probably cannot support many programs. All computers run out of days eventually, and it is time for a new computer.

[Camazotz]

If you don't mind the extra space it takes up in your house, you could keep it as a back up in case your main computer breaks (you shouldn't be using it as a main computer, especially if it's running Windows XP because of security issues). Personally, I'd scrap it; the hardware is extremely outdated and inferior.