Anything made by Dell is. Try disassembling one of their mini PCs. I don't know what tools they have at the dell manufacturing plant, but they must not be made of normal matter that's all I can tell you, because otherwise how have they managed to put a screw that holds the PSU in place, under the PSU itself.

[–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'd really give it a try, if I had one. I find some pleasure in trying to fix and find new life for unused hardware, no matter how old or weird it is. Well, sometimes I fail, but I keep it in case I get nrw ideas for it in the future.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

what do you do with a laptop that has 4 GB ram and a HDD of the slower kind? xfce is not really more memory efficient than plasma.

[–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

4 gb is pretty reasonable for light usage. The hdd can be formatted as btrfs with compression for better performance. I'd also consider replacing the hdd with an ssd and using the hdd as extra storage, if possible.