Hey Rogue,

What does he want to do with it? Play Games, Programming, Web Surfing...?

I have an OLD 486 Laptop, that is similiar to the specs on your friends computer (small HD, 486, 16MB Ram). I use it to run a Borland Compiler, and for occasional web surfing. To be honest it doesn't do that bad! In any case, I wouldn't get rid of it! Use it as a C/C++ Learning computer (If you mess it up somehow, who cares, it was old!!)

If he wants to do anything other than those two things (Code or Websurf), he should invest in a new comp

-Simon Templer