How do you deal with your old computer?

I will sell it and buy a new computer.

i gave mine to my step daughter

I agree with your idea. It is a good way .
I got irritated when i use big software as the network speed is slowly .
Perhaps i will give my old computer to the relatives who need it.
They just need common software such as word,excel,etc is enough.
Like your words it won't be a waste

I had an old computer before that was really slow. I used it on the side only for chatting and browsing since it was slow. When it was finally to slow, I gave to my dad who upgraded it and is now using it in his office. I had an older computer before that I sold to buy the parts of my newer computer.

Did you consider doing an uprade? If not its worth it having around especially if you have young kids. They always can practicse their typing skills on these types of computer. Otherwise they can always be exhibites as part of your computer museum.:)

I use my old computer to hold up my old files to serve it as a backup and of course sometimes I used it to make a report on some spread sheet and do some solitaire.

i had a computer with amd 400mhz 128 mb ram 8mb onboard via graphics. i used it about 6years.i format my comp ussing winxp twice in a month so as to get good speed. one thing i forgot its harddisk capacity is 10gb. at last its onboard graphics was shortcircuited and i replaced my computer to newer one

When my computer became old I sold it away and then used that money and put in some more to get my self a new computer. That is usually what most people do. I was lucky enough to catch hold of a dealer for second hand stuff.

So the guy came over to my place and saw that the computer was working fine, tested a few things and saw that everything was in good shape. Then he was ready to buy it and told me his price which was pretty much reasonable I felt. So I sold it off to him.

Now I have my new computer which is a core 2 duo and it works a million times faster than my old PC which was a P3. Actually I needed to use Visual Studio for my project and my old PC couldn't support it properly. Use to hang and run really slowly.

just upgrade it.. you dont have to upgrade it too expensive.. just upgrade it till it enough... than you have 2 computer in your house!^^ or you give that to your neighbour and say to them to upgrade it by yourself... chaw!^^

My old P1 is working as my file server with FreeBSD as its Operating system.
It has no GUI, Plain CLI interface so it is working great and i am happy with it:-)