Thanks man.. I know. I've an old Asus laptop/netbook with an Atom processor. Quad-core I might add. The travesty! It's slow as hell. I bought it because it had an 11 inch screen and I wanted something small. I bought it for AUD $300 back in 2015. I haven't used it more than a month. It's just part of my electronics junk collection. Now a days I'm a lot more careful before buying these things. That's why I've been holding on to the idea of buying a bunch of RPi 4s or Jetson Nanos. It's probably a better idea to get a proper GPU for my Ryzen desktop.
As a general concept, an old low-end laptop can sometimes be usefully repurposed as a low end NAS. It just needs a sufficient amount of ram (depends on the NAS software), and the ability to plug in disks via some means (USB, etc).
It wouldn't be fast, but the battery in it (unless completely dead) even provides some power-outage protection. :)
