I'm going to purchase an old laptop soon. (likely a Thinkpad T430 or earlier, maybe a Compaq if I can find one). I'll have the opportunity to test out machines in-person at a re-pc & goodwill outlet.
I'd like to create a livecd (prolly one on usb & one on actual cd) for the purpose of testing out machines in-store - just basic stuff like sound, monitor, keyboard, & battery. What distro & version would you recommend for working with these older laptops? Ideally, I'd like to have something that has basic drivers for a wide array of 2000s-era laptops, specifically with Sandy or Ivy Bridge CPUs.
If anyone's curious, my ultimate goal in buying the machine is to run WinXP on it & use it mostly as a word processor (let the booing commence).
