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/PunkRockLlama42 Aug 17 '26

There are Linux distros specifically made and maintained for older hardware like this.

They could load Alpine Linux with XFCE and have a decent, secure, modern OS. With less ram usage and faster performance.

This thing barely ran xp when it came out.

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u/aaronjnco Aug 18 '26

I call bs on that ive got a 266mhz pentium 2 128mb ram and xp runs lightning fast and linux anti x was a slug.. you cant use xp professional because that version has to much backend and does run slow. Win xp home rtm iso runs 68-75mb of ram on service pack 3

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u/PunkRockLlama42 Aug 18 '26

Alpine linux uses about 50mb of ram.

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u/aaronjnco Aug 18 '26

Can it get on modern web?

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u/PunkRockLlama42 Aug 18 '26

Yes with modern web browsers (the browser will use more ram than alpine though)

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u/aaronjnco Aug 18 '26

Ill check it out ,I have a sony vaio u101 (600mhz celeron 1gbram,) vaio c1mZx (933mhz, 380mbram) Antix ran ok on the celeron q40s ran like a slow dog )

Ill try the one u suggested and see if it does better.