Hi RV ..
In truth Im trying to achieve a laptop for each 'popular' windows OS ..
So far I have a (under restoration) Toshiba T4900CT running win95
The T5200/100 I'm working on for Windows 3.1
The Inspiron 2500 will hopefully accomodate Win98SE (almost done)
An HP nc6000 earmarked for win2000
I have a Toshiba Tercra M5 running XPpro
and a Dell Latitude E6430 64 bit running Win7
Ill hopefully fill in the gaps NT ME and Vista at some point..
Windows 10 can go take a flyer ..
I hate it with a passion.

Going to add another laptop to this thread that being the Dell Precision M70 which is an uncommon laptop but it does show up on eBay. In short this laptop is pretty decent for those not wanting a heavier 17 inch model while at the same time it is lighter than it looks and very well made plus it is easy to work with and upgrades are painless unlike modern laptops which don't upgrade almost anything at all. The audio quality is pretty good when compared to modern laptops and comfortable to use despite the thickness.

http://www.notebookreview.com/notebookreview/ … tup-pics-specs/

I had a Latitude D830 and brought it to grad school once. People thought I was using some 90s brick. It was great.

I recntly bought a Sony Vaio x505 in near mint condition, a truely stunning ultraportable from around 2003, not exactly a gaming laptop but I’m looking forward to how it copes with Windows 98 and gaming of that era.

misterjones wrote:

I owned a Dell Inspiron 5000e for a number of years. Combined with the port replicator it was my main PC for a while. The whole flippin thing is modular. Mine came with 700MHz P3, however the processor sits on a swappable module, and there were models available up to 1GHz. It was really like a mobile desktop in a number of ways including its size and weight. The CDROM bay could be swapped with a DVD drive, CDRW, and there were some DVD burners that worked with it as well, plus it could be swapped for a Zip drive. For video it could have either an 8MB ATI Rage Pro under the hood or a 16MB ATI Rage 128; these are also swappable modules. Display wide the thing had an almost 15" display and mine had the 1400x1050 resolution. It could also be had with 1600x1200. There were also the Inspiron 5000 variant with, IIRC, a 1280x1024 display.

I played a lot of UT99, Starcraft, Quake, Tribes, and a few other games on mine. Hated that I had to sell it but it had to be done.

i have a dell 5000e reading your post looks like it is a good machine for retro gaming
but sadly the notebook came with an ESS maestro 2 soundcard and there were no DOS drivers ever made for it, most of the drivers are win98 only. the resolution of the screen is very high, i wonder why in that era these resolutions were used

Ahh, found my first post which is about the D830 Dell Latitude D830

A bit of necroposting, but this thread is gold.

Just wanted to add my XP machine here: Dell Precision M70 which is almost the same as Inspiron D810. Mine has 1680x1050 screen and NVidia Quadro graphics card. Use it for XP gaming, runs like a charm.