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I had installed Debian on an Acer Aspire One Laptop. It has a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU with just 1GB of RAM. I obviously can't run it like a usual desktop anymore, it's way too slow.

I tried it to connect it to my TV with HDMI to create some sort of "Smart TV" setup, but that didn't work out because I can't even play 1080p videos on VLC with it smoothly.

So.... What now? Can I only use it for headless stuff like pihole, nextcloud, etc. now?

Is there any hope left for my unsuccessful "Smart TV" contraption?

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[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying to utilize a couple of core 2 duo macbooks for the same purpose and it's not going great. I have twice the cores and RAM but they're stuck at 800 MHz, because of no batteries.

anyhow, very slow and issues with a lot of codecs I throw at them. try mpv without a DE/WM.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

The c2d MacBooks ought to have relatively cheap and available batteries. Why not put one in?