I turned my old laptop into a dedicated Home Assistant hub in under an hour
Turns out, a decade old laptop has enough juice to control my smart home gadgets
Old PCs may lack the necessary firepower for Triple-A gaming and hardcore video editing tasks, but they’re a great option when you want to dip your feet into computing projects. Sure, a rig with multiple cores and ungodly amounts of memory can run a plethora of services in tandem, but you can also reuse old consumer-grade hardware for some neat utilities like, say, Home Assistant.
