{"id":7099,"date":"2014-06-23T21:03:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2014-12-05T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T14:09:43","slug":"what-to-do-with-an-old-aldi-medion-dell-inspiron-1520-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/06\/what-to-do-with-an-old-aldi-medion-dell-inspiron-1520-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do with an old Aldi Medion (Dell Inspiron 1520) laptop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out to be super easy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/elementary-os-luna\/\">download Elementary OS Luna<\/a>\u00a0and create a CD ROM from the downloaded ISO by using OS X\u2019s Disk Utility (Luna is based on\u00a0Ubuntu 12.04 LTS\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">(&#8220;Precise Pangolin&#8221;)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>press F2 at the Medion and let it boot from the CD, then install Luna right away<\/li>\n<li>follow the instructions at <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=1974006\">ubuntuforums.org<\/a>\u00a0( now\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/271044\/getting-wireless-to-work-dell-inspiron-e1505-bcm4311\">askubuntu.com<\/a> ) to install the wireless driver<\/li>\n<li>go to to the admin panel, replace the Luna browser with Chrome, get <a href=\"http:\/\/lightzoneproject.org\/content\/instructions-linux\">Light-zone<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0add also Libre Office. Several more changes are also <a href=\"http:\/\/itsfoss.com\/top-ten-installing-elementary-os-luna\/\">recommended<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guarantee you a brand new machine 1 hour later that will boot in less than 30s, sleep in another 3s, start Chrome in &lt;1s and render a Facebook\u00a0page in 1s. Incredible. Something Microsoft was dreaming of for decades. Microsoft\u00a0even\u00a0wants us to trash\u00a0these old XP machines by\u00a0ending any support.\u00a0That\u00a0would be another incredible waste as look and feel with Luna is better than ever.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 13.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turned out to be super easy download Elementary OS Luna\u00a0and create a CD ROM from the downloaded ISO by using OS X\u2019s Disk Utility (Luna is based on\u00a0Ubuntu 12.04 LTS\u00a0(&#8220;Precise Pangolin&#8221;) press F2 at the Medion and let it boot from the CD, then install Luna right away follow the instructions at ubuntuforums.org\u00a0( now\u00a0askubuntu.com &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/06\/what-to-do-with-an-old-aldi-medion-dell-inspiron-1520-laptop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What to do with an old Aldi Medion (Dell Inspiron 1520) laptop?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2878,2877,2880,2881,2879,2759],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","tag-linux","tag-looser","tag-luna","tag-ubuntu","tag-winner","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7378,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}