Howdy DIYers,
I happened across a lovely dell inspirion 8500. They just don’t design laptops like this anymore.

Now, it’s very old. It has RAM in the megabytes, so not really usable these days. I’m wondering if anybody has put a new motherboard or somehow upgraded this or a similar laptop to be decent but still keep the shell.


Can you? Yes. Is it worth your time and effort? Probably not. But that’s rarely stopped anyone.