A few years ago, I got a laptop for Susan. It was pretty low-powered, even for its time — a 133MHz Pentium system. But even though it wasn’t terribly powerful, we got some use out of it, mainly for the kids go play games on, or for us to do some late-night web surfing from the comfort of our bedroom. That’s what we were going to do this weekend. I was going to do some lightweight web surfing on the laptop while Susan did some work on our desktop system. But the display died.
IF you have two laptops, check out http://www.maxivista.com. Definitely a cool software utility where you can use the old laptop as an extra display of your primary laptop.