Got an ancient laptop or desktop lying around? We tell you how to transform an old PC into an NAS, experiment with a new OS, ...

We may be a country obsessed with fixing our homes and tricking out our cars, but we usually throw away our PCs when they start to give us trouble. These days, however, the recession and the tight ...

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If your old workhorse of a PC is starting to slow down in its old age, these low (or no-) cost tricks can help put some pep ...

As time passes and you accrue more belongings, tech in particular, you may end up with a lot of unused old gear. You could trash it or recycle it the old-fashioned way, or you could repurpose it.

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I tested Omega Linux to see if it can revitalize an old PC, and it made Ubuntu distributions look bad ...

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