This weeks orphan computer is a Dell Inspiron 2350 AIO (all in one) with 23 inch screen from about 2013-14. Purchased for $20 US, had no power adapter nor the original wireless keyboard and mouse. Dell site showed they came with I3, I5 or I7 CPU, up to 16gb ram and a 1tb HDD + touch screen Dell calls for a 150-180 watt power supply, but I was able to get it to run with a 90 watt laptop adapter by pressing F12, otherwise it complains during boot. This one has an I5-4200m CPU, 8gb ram and 1tb HDD, all of these are up-gradable. Has wifi, Ethernet, bluetooth, camera, microphone and sdcard slot. Interestingly, there is a "HDMI In" connector, so it can be used as just a monitor.
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Specs also showed it had a mSata SSD drive slot, so ordered a 256gb mSata from Ebay. This wouldn't matter to much for Puppy, but will speed up MS Windows or bigger Linux distros. I'll use the 1tb HDD as a backup image drive.
This AIO model has the motherboard and everthing else in the base. Takes 8 screws to remove the base and surprisingly both the top and bottom covers are metal. Likely to improve durablility and add weight to support the 23 inch screen. HDD is on the right and the mSata is in the red outline.
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Installed BookwormPup64 and Windows 11, dual booting with grub. BW64 runs perfect including the touch screen.
Although the CPU can be upgraded, the I5 dual core has a Passmark v9 = 4089 and is quite snappy, even on W11. All in all, this is a good choice for Puppy if you want a big screen and small foot print. Recommended if it can be had for a cheap price.
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