I think I used to have a laptop just like that, a Dell Inspiron 9100. Given to me by a rich relative who just bought a new laptop.
That thing is massive and heavy as hell, but it had a desktop Pentium 4, 1GB of ram and a Mobility Radeon 9800. Some serious compute power for a 2004 laptop. Runs Need for Speed Most Wanted in 1024x768 without any issues at all. Runs circles around any desktop I've seen at the time.
Then I brought it to my friend's house to show off, he installed a hack for a MMO he was playing. It had a virus. Had to get an adult to reinstall Windows for me, but he couldn't find the graphics driver and that crippled the gaming performance after that.
Man I miss that thing. It got me started on the whole performance laptop path. Every single laptop I've ever bought since is a huge, heavy, unwieldy piece of crap that got obsolete in 3 years.
I think I used to have a laptop just like that, a Dell Inspiron 9100. Given to me by a rich relative who just bought a new laptop.
That thing is massive and heavy as hell, but it had a desktop Pentium 4, 1GB of ram and a Mobility Radeon 9800. Some serious compute power for a 2004 laptop. Runs Need for Speed Most Wanted in 1024x768 without any issues at all. Runs circles around any desktop I've seen at the time.
Then I brought it to my friend's house to show off, he installed a hack for a MMO he was playing. It had a virus. Had to get an adult to reinstall Windows for me, but he couldn't find the graphics driver and that crippled the gaming performance after that.
Man I miss that thing. It got me started on the whole performance laptop path. Every single laptop I've ever bought since is a huge, heavy, unwieldy piece of crap that got obsolete in 3 years.