Featured Articles
Announcing Pi
Technical Specifications
Raspberry Pi FAQs
Win a Pi
Raspberry Pi Wishlist
Actions
Forum Thread Details
  • Replies 13 replies
  • Subscribers 675 subscribers
  • Views 5011 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Related

Using the Rasberry Pi on older PC systems

Former Member

I currently have several laptops a Dell lapstop Inspiron 1501, a Compaq Intel, both are about 7 yrs old and work well. I also have 2 laptops about 15 yrs old Toshiba Techra 8000s that work well for what they are capable of doing. Will the Rasberry PI B attach to these laptops?  The Dell & Compaq can already surf the net, do office functions, watch movies and store quite a bit, but the download times are long. The Toshibas are basically good to type with and email with a little surfing. My question is this will the Rasberry B give them a comparable functionality to newer Laptops?

Parents

  • You could actualy make a rpi laptop but it's very expensive and it will be a very low performance setup.

    You will need:

    0 - The answer to the question "Why do I want to do this?"

    1 - Laptop

    2 - TFT LCD controller with DVI input (wicked expensive) and a HDMI->DVI converter

    3 - Keyboard controller(from a USB keyboard)

    4 - A psu to provide power to the lcd and rpi(probably the laptop battery isn't good anymore so you will need a new one).

    7 - A decent memory card(16gb or 32gb, class 10)

    8 - A lot of hacking and will power and some electronics skills(soldering included).

     

     

    Trow away the the stuff in the laptop except the keyboard, the display and the external ports on the side.

    You can read here how you can hack the keyboard: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:4488

    You will need some a voltage regulator(12V i think), caps and diodes for the LCD.

    Try to put all the things together and make them stay that way. image

Reply

  • You could actualy make a rpi laptop but it's very expensive and it will be a very low performance setup.

    You will need:

    0 - The answer to the question "Why do I want to do this?"

    1 - Laptop

    2 - TFT LCD controller with DVI input (wicked expensive) and a HDMI->DVI converter

    3 - Keyboard controller(from a USB keyboard)

    4 - A psu to provide power to the lcd and rpi(probably the laptop battery isn't good anymore so you will need a new one).

    7 - A decent memory card(16gb or 32gb, class 10)

    8 - A lot of hacking and will power and some electronics skills(soldering included).

     

     

    Trow away the the stuff in the laptop except the keyboard, the display and the external ports on the side.

    You can read here how you can hack the keyboard: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:4488

    You will need some a voltage regulator(12V i think), caps and diodes for the LCD.

    Try to put all the things together and make them stay that way. image

Children