Getting Rid of an Old Notebook?

A lot of folks have been talking lately about upgrading to the new MacBook Pro... or for that matter upgrading in general. And honestly I've been looking around at machines myself.

The only machine I have for development right now is an HP notebook with 1gb RAM (that was *with* an upgrade) and a 1ghz dual-core AMD Turion processor. It's a 64-bit processor although I was told by HP support that they wouldn't support me putting a 64-bit OS on it because there weren't drivers available for the hardware at the time. Anyway this machine cost me about $1600 new when I bought it a few years ago. Today I can go down the street to Staples and get any old generic, bottom-of-the-line HP notebook and for less than half what I spent on this machine it would be twice as fast and have 3x as much physical memory.

However right now I can't afford to upgrade. In lieu of that here's my pitch. If you're one of these guys who's currently upgrading and you've got and older notebook that you're not using anymore, you can contribute quite a lot to the continued development of the onTap framework and the DataFaucet ORM by donating your previous notebook.

My plan is to build a CLAM server (ColdFusion, Linux, Apache, MySQL). :) Then I'll disable the relevant server services on the notebook I have now where all my email and personal stuff is, and I'll do my primary development and testing on the new notebook with just those services on it.

Thanks. :)