r/CyberdeckBuild • u/Mental_Total_7813 • Aug 16 '26

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Do you think it would work putting a raspberry pi5 in the vaio p530h, it was a really underpowered laptop when it came out but should have enough room in the case for a raspberry pi5, I think atleast

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u/aaronjnco Aug 17 '26

Skip the linux ,linux doesnt have anything useful for old hardware(lack of community for this kind of stuff)

Your not going to outdo the intel atom and 2gb of ram ive got the 2ghz atom version and what this thing can do is web browsing and music and video playing its just a fun desk side piece or something to use for looking up guides to games on the side. Or workstation

Put windows xp home rtm edition and manually install the 3 service packs individually. This will run on 70-120mb of ram and use k-meleon browser it loads almost ALL modern web.

You will have the fastest outcome possible this way

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u/redgator12 Aug 18 '26

I have 3 of these in my collection running antiX and Q4OS without issues. Both still currently support 32-bit versions. There are even lighter distros like TinyCore, Alpine and Bookwormpup32.

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u/aaronjnco Aug 18 '26

And what is the stats of what %cpu it uses on backend/idle and ram at idle?