HA on a 11 year old core 2 duo laptop. Good idea?

Installation
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Hi folks,

I recently got my mom a new laptop and as such, I currently have her old one which is currently a doorstop. It is a core 2 duo with 2 GB RAM and 350 GB hard drive.

Before I consider selling it for something, I’d like to understand whether I should consider using this laptop for HA instead of my Rpi 3b. Granted, I am going to have to install Ubuntu and Docker onto it in order to install HA (aka HASS.io).

What sort of performance benefit would I get? Granted, 11 year old hardware is a bit of a tough sell, but if one doesn’t engage the inquiring mind, one will never know.

Let me know your thoughts.

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Well power wise it’s fine,
The main issue would be the physical HDD,
replace with a cheap, 64gb SSD.
It should be the current SATA, and not a PATA,
Turn off all power management that the O/s may set as it will see it as a laptop and set its power profile accordingly. Also check the bios as well. You want everything to run at 100% including CPU performance.