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Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by fixvzbdjzis on Monday February 25, 2019 @03:28PM (#19249125)
I used an old SGI Fuel (700Mhz, 2GB Ram) as my daily driver @ work until 2013. I would rdesktop to use heavy websites, but other than that it rocked.

Stopped using it because I graduated and I didn’t want to pay the electricity bill or keep a jet engine running at night (light sleeper)

If anyone here had successfully converted an SGI to a fanless SSD unit, let me know!

Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by unxmaal on Monday February 25, 2019 @04:36PM (#19249684)
You might check on https://forums.irix.cc/ .

I have an Origin 300 rackmount with upgraded Noctua fans, and it's quiet enough to not be a bother.

Re:Oldest Viable Laptop (2017) by fixvzbdjzis on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:38PM (#19250985)
Thnx. Now that Nekochan is dead I’m really lost in the Irix world.

Btw, do you know if there’s a way to make the boot drive a network drive (not the install drive)? I thought I remembered the post-doc in the lab keeping a half dozen O2s alive w/out replacement drives. But I might be wrong