Digital Archeology time! I did a search on the power brick and got several names - one of them being Commax Ultrathin 386. And someone is selling one on ebay! Okay, next up, FCC ID and see what's going on. One of the photos is from the bottom of the laptop and contains the FCCID code, which includes …

Eh, the SiS 305 isn't a great card, it's more of a...there card. Real life performance would be about that of an ATi Rage Pro or an nVidia Riva128. As for it being useful...eh, well, it's a good reason to send an S3 Virge to the landfill, right?

Many years ago I had a Toshiba Satellite Pro 490 XCDT laptop with a Pentium II 266 MHz CPU, S3 video card and ESS Solo-1 audio chip. Perfect for DOS games. It had two display modes for non-native resolutions: stretch/fill screen and smaller image. It also had a USB port which is very useful for …

If you got $700 to burn and want the FINEST in emulation and retro gaming in an actual handheld, I would recommend a GPD Win 2. It a Windows 10 handheld x86 PC that's slightly larger than a 3DSXL. Yeah, it's expensive, but it can play just about anything up to PS2/Dreamcast, and almost every PC …

The 8-bit guy didn't mention the Sony Vaio notebook computers that have Yamaha DS-XG audio hardware. The graphics are not good for 3D, but good for everything else. He didn't mention the Vaios because his video concentrated on the late era 2/early era 3 machines for pure DOS gaming (stuff that is …

Okay, I noticed that people expressing an interest in retro-gaming on a vintage laptop has been a topic that has been raked up many, many, many times, but yet, I feel like this is a rich topic that will be asked over-and-over-and-over again here, with many divergent points of interest (which CPU …

Filename IMG_20181128_222347.jpg File size 1.6 MiB Views 613 views Refurbished my previously borked PowerBook Aluminum 1.52GHz. New heatsink paste, new LCD assembly, installed an mSATA SSD to replace an HDD and a new-old-stock combo drive. Time for some Halo and UT2004SE. Filename IMG_20181201_ …

Well, honestly, unless you plan to format the entire drive and use all of the capacity, running trim on SSD is not really super-important (most drives have built-in garbage collection). You could in theory boot into Linux for trim, but the problem is that most modern Linux distros require stuff like …

Why a K6-2+ instead of a K6-3+? A K6-2+ is just a K6-3+ with half the cache, and they should not be too far off, price-wise. I got mine for about 10 USD not too long ago to upgrade my Cobalt Qube 3 Pro...

@Rage I haven't seen this "yellow cellophane covered" thing on mine (by looking in the RAM trapdoor), but if it's where the battery is, this might be problematic the day I'll have to replace it. Unless the cellophane was missing on my unit... By the way, yes it's definitely a ZX chipset, so that's …

Looking at the motherboard now (I tore it apart yesterday, a connector became loose and would cause issues), I couldn't find a CMOS battery on the mobo, and even without the laptop's battery in, it still retained the BIOS settings, so there must be some kind of super capacitor (like on the original …

The new T490 has 8 or 16GB soldered and another slot free. The X390 and T490s have soldered RAM and WiFi. Yeah, I have an X1 Carbon Gen6 (20KH series) from work - the RAM is all soldered (all 16GB of it) - at least the WiFi and (NVMe) SSD is not soldered on like those freaking Touchbar MacBook Pros …

Let's see - I got my Thinkpad X31 (recently acquired on eBay) cleaned up and ready for some oldschool XP goodness. (In case you are wondering about the specs: Pentium M Banias 1.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 16MB Radeon M6, 12" XGA screen, AD1981 AC97 sound chip, 128GB mSATA-to-IDE SSD, native USB2, and Windows XP …

TBH I was an avid ThinkPad user for years and then since the *40 series I've switched to EliteBooks. Haven't looked back since. Oh, I have been using thinkpads since I daily drove a Celeron powered Thinkpad 240 going back to 1999 (even had the big extended battery and 320MB of RAM for it) - and …

Never had an Omnibook but know there's a bit of a cult following for them. Are they really that good? They feel quite solid, so that's certain, the keyboard doesn't feel that "mushy" (unlike the one on my Armada 1700 which feels like massaging fruit cake :dead:) so that's always a plus. As for the …

Yeah, your machine is kinda weird, but not in a bad way. The Omnibooks are like HP's version of ThinkPads - better grade of quality versus their Pavilions, and features some nice designs...the old school Omnibook 800CTs are good competitors against Toshiba Librettos. They eventually gave way to the …

I am looking for laptop for win 98 era with sound support for late dos games, since I don't have much space at home at the moment.And I want something that can play more or less everything without major sacrifices. I would love if it had these: Boxy design. :blush: Max 13" TFT screen. Decent …