You should definitely install a 2.5" notebook ide harddisk in that puppy, it will be so much better with, as he said, WHDLoad. You can use the program to install and run most of your old games from harddisk. They'll load a lot faster and your son may also then take the opportunity hopefully to start playing around with the OS, maybe learn a thing or two about real computing (not just web surfing or irc on a Windoze machine).