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

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

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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 in its processing step.

Long story short - I've got my Mum's old iMac which is a Core i5 2500S vintage machine. 12GB RAM, 1TB spinning drive. Still quite a nice unit, screen is still good, so trying to see if we can make use ...