Bringing a laptop back to life

I’m going to be really Green this month and impart a little knowledge that might be of some assistance.
It’s been ten years or so now since I got me first laptop computer and boy did it impress! To be anyone you had to have a laptop. You could be sitting in a bus station or on a train twiddling thumbs with strangers not passing you a second glance but as soon as the laptop was whipped out it was clear you were no Johnny six pack. To passersby you could have been a Nuclear Scientist, Chief State Solicitor or Head of Complicated Surgery at some centre for complicated surgery. Today it’s all different. For a start, there is probably more memory capacity in my daughter’s IPod thingy than was in my then state-of-the-art IBM laptop. Laptops are so commonplace they are even giving them away to county councillors. Well, Clare County Council gave me one - a Dell with about ten times the RAM, twenty times quicker with broadband and wireless connectivity capacity and half the size and weight of my old IBM. Ok, I am not impressing any one with that kind of talk but my old laptop was put to one side and was gathering dust. That was until the other day.