First post, by mr_bigmouth_502
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As my main portable laptop (not counting my incredibly nonportable Alienware m17x that my dad handed down to me 🤣), I own a 2004-era Acer Travelmate 4500 series machine with a 1.6GHz Pentium M, 2GB of DDR ram (upgraded from 512MB), Intel onboard graphics, and an incredibly slow 80GB IDE hard drive (the last time I checked it was like 4200RPM with a 2MB cache 😜).
Despite its low specs, it holds its own quite well in terms of websurfing and running pre-2002 games, but it has a few issues (mainly the slow hard drive, the dwindling battery life, and the erratic USB ports) that have caused me to consider getting another machine to replace it with.
I've looked at a bunch of netbooks, and most of the ones out there seem like they would work well enough as replacements, but they all seem to have one glaring issue: they're powered by Intel Atoms. 😜 As pathetic as it is, the Intel Atom architecture actually has only HALF the processing power of an equivalently-clocked Pentium M in single-threaded tasks, and I sure as hell don't want a downgrade. I just want something cheap (in the $200-$350 Canadian range) that has equal or better specs.