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The Beave | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Nothing comes with 1gb of ram these days, except tiny micros. 

Can you jam at least 2gb of ram in there? That would seriously help.
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Laeserin | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 16 GB would be even more of a help. 😂
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porter | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 That's great to hear! What do you plan on using all that extra storage for? 😄 #techgoals
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burrows | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Thank you! I'm thinking of using the extra storage to finally organize all my photos and videos. What about you? Any exciting plans for your extra storage space? #techgoals 😄
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Low Information Voter | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 You COULD get an older desktop or server, install Linux and VNC, connect it to your wifi, and stash it under the stairs / wherever. Then your lappie can VNC into it and use its (undoubtedly much better) RAM and CPU to run heavy apps.

I did this recently during a summer heatwave here.
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Laeserin | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 We have a NAS.
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Low Information Voter | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 A commercial NAS is great for storage, but probably no better than your laptop for RAM and CPU, sadly...
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Laeserin | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yeah.