Dell Latitude CPx Laptops?

[pankakes123]

I haven't even plugged them in yet but I think they are running XP. I found two of them. My question is is there anything I could do to make use of these things, like maybe running old PC games or something? Otherwise, should I just scrap them for parts like hard drives?

[AppleQueso]

If you don't have any other laptops they make fairly serviceable web browsers I guess.

I had one before. It was kinda a POS.

[BoringSupreez]

I'm not sure what age these laptops are, other than that they were probably made between 2002 and 2006. I'd say keep one for running old games (like from 2001 and before, nothing even remotely demanding) and scrap the other. Windows 7 doesn't run everything from the Windows 9X days that you might want.

[isiolia]

I'm not sure what age these laptops are, other than that they were probably made between 2002 and 2006.

Older than that. Tech in them is 1999-2000 range from what I see (440BX chipset, speeds match Coppermine PIIIs).

Might be useful for Windows 98 or earlier software, though anything that'd benefit from a 3D accelerator would be out of luck. What you could readily run that couldn't be run as well or better in a VM, I dunno, but there's the possibility.

I wouldn't bother scrapping them for parts. You can buy SD cards for a few bucks that are larger, and likely faster, than the HDDs they'd come with.