Is that CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1? That should be a shared memory solution. I wouldn't expect much 3d performance, and for 2d games the CPU is probably overkill. Maybe useful for something like Duke3D or similar in high resolutions.
You might even think about downgrading to a slower P3 like 550E if heat is a concern for you (if you can get one cheap, that is).

Still, there are probably some games for which that laptop makes sense. What are you playing on it?

idspispopd wrote:

Is that CyberBLADE ALADDiN i1?
Still, there are probably some games for which that laptop makes sense. What are you playing on it?

Nope. If it was the one you said it would have said Ai1,while mine just says i1 AGP.

As for what I play on it,I play Need For Speed Porsche 2000 (name is of the EU release)

Now,some pics of it:

I didn't want to insult you, I'm just not familiar with those late Trident chips. Anyway, shared memory video with 8MB RAM shared. NFS Porsche doesn't seem to need much video performance so that's probably a good choice for the laptop.

I used to play Revolt on a via mvp4 that had one of those integrated 3D chips from Trident, really liked the image quality.

idspispopd wrote:

I didn't want to insult you, I'm just not familiar with those late Trident chips. Anyway, shared memory video with 8MB RAM shared. NFS Porsche doesn't seem to need much video performance so that's probably a good choice for the laptop.

I didn't mean to insult anyone,and I apologize if I insulted you. Anyways,I really am curious in trying Ford Racing 2 and such.

SimCity 3000, Rollercoaster Tycoon and original Half Life should run well on that. Also eDuke32 should run okay without the high res pack. It'd be a good machine for a feel for the early to mid XP era. I have a ThinkPad T22 with a Savage IX and Pentium III 1ghz and those games run well. It's too new for a lot of what's popular here while too old for any real internet use. Install a lightweight IM client, some e-mail software and put it on the edge of your desk so while you game on or whatever with your main rig, you have a dedicated console for e-mails, IMs or a side IRC conversation.

Update: Installed Windows 98 SE on it,using an discless method,which consists in wiring up an card reader to a USB cable,then copying the WIN98 folder to C:\win98se,then deleted old Windows ME files (del command for files and deltree for WINDOWS folder) and installed Windows 98 SE over.

Stuff installed on it is Word 97,KernelEx 4.5.120,98lite Professional 4.7 and using Opera 10 as browser.

BTW,anybody know any browser that isn't sluggish and buggy?Opera is slow and IE5 is buggy.

You aren't going to have an enjoyable browsing experience on Windows 98. You can try Firefox 3.6 with KernelEx, but 9x is a buggy POS and modern browsers will stress the OS and unupgraded HW hard.

I would run Windows 2000 on the machine myself.

calvin wrote:

I would run Windows 2000 on the machine myself.

I strangely had more problems with 2000 than with 9x.

Also,9x has real mode DOS.