Put ZorinOS on it and use it as a laptop. Easy. Or Mint. Both work nicely on a 2015 Air.

I have a few and was going to use them as servers, but laptop battery management is too fussy for a server setup. Now selling them cheap with Linux.

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There's probably a local women/children shelter that could use it.

Many of the residents left their homes quickly due to family upheaval and can use it.

Could put the latest available OSX on it and sell it for $300. People buy old apple stuff like vintage clothes.

I actually used an old MacBook air for this project! Not quite 10 years old, but pretty up there. I turned it into a jellyfin media server.

Just installed Ubuntu server on it, then docker and make a docker-compose file for Jellyfin after setting up the file structure for it.

I didn't know what I was doing at first so it took me a bit to get it fully functional, but all the steps are pretty much there in the documentation I think. Not much coding involved at all, just some terminal commands and whatnot.

What operating system are you trying to run on the VM?

I have a 2017 Air. I used it as a home server for about 2 years with Debian, running some docker containers. Currently, I have installed Fedora on it, and i use it for light tasks.

It has a 5th gen i5, 8gb ram. It can't do a lot, bust still good enough for me as a secondary device.

Put VMware fusion or VirtualBox on it, install Linux, give it all the resources that the system can spare…

Then run OpenClaw on it. 😆😆