There are no real questions here, just sharing my experience of trying to repurpose old hardware and bring it new life. Hopefully you can too!  I came across an old HP Mini 5103 Netbook I had unused. It wasn't capable in running light weight linux OS's very well but didn't want to throw it out. I checked the specs: Intel Atom N455 Processor (1.66 GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB) 2GB DDR3 1333 MHz SDRAM Dedicated 10/100/1000 NIC 250GB 2.5" 7200RPM HDD 3 USB Po