I am currently trying to do something useful with an old laptop of my mother's. It's the Dell Inspiron B130, WinXP, 40 GB HDD, Intel Celeron M 420 processor, and has 256 MB RAM also... I just ordered a RAM upgrade to 2x1 GB so when I get it hopefully I can get something to actually run...
Looking around for a replacement HDD, it's been suggested on various places the hardware can't handle larger than 120 GB. But I can go all the way to
EIDE. W00t!!
I was thinking of installing Arch Linux, because it sounds fun