What to do with an old laptop

Kind of been all over the place here thinking of my next project. Cleaning out some stuff in the house and garage and came across my old Dell Inspiron laptop. Still works can't upgrade windows on it? AnywAy does anyone have any ideas for a use other than trashing it or paperweight? Was maybe going to mount it on my prop wall om creating and doing a slideshow of all my props and build pics? Any good ideas out there?

You could always convert it into Ed's computer from Cowboy Bebop.

Or the sentry gun controller from Aliens.

I once stripped all the casing off an old dell, including all the screen surround and all the un-needed parts (Keyboard, mousepad, modem). I then mounted the motherboard/HDD on the back, and used a perspex stand with it. Put a bunch of pictures into a wallpaper folder so on boot it would drop into a slideshow.

It looked kinda cool.

I always wanted to do a similar thing but mount the screen into a desk.

Another thing that I would like to do is strip one out as described above, and use the screen showing video loops as a backdrop for a prop in my collection. You could have the Dinos running from JurassicPark behind a raptor claw or shaving can cryo.... or (what I may do), the advertising blimp in Bladerunner behind a BR Blaster.

You could give it to a charitable cause

I turned mine into the guts of an Arcade (MAME) machine.

Snow Builder said:

I turned mine into the guts of an Arcade (MAME) machine.

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This! I turned an old macbook into a mame machine for my living room.

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