In January 2018 (that is not a typo, it took me a year to find time to write this blog post!) I set myself the challenge of building a retrogaming desktop that would have blown my mind in the year 2000. That was around the time I started to cultivate an interest in computers and … Continue reading The Ultimate Y2K Gaming PC
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Farewell to Windows Vista
Windows Vista is approaching its "end of life" date and support is due to expire on Tuesday 11th April 2017. I think it's fair to say this operating system divides opinion. Introduction I love Windows Vista. I think it's great. But you do need some serious horsepower behind it, and my laptop doesn't have it. … Continue reading Farewell to Windows Vista
Dell Latitude X200 Refurbish
I impulse bought a Dell Latitude X200 laptop from eBay, and you can see the full hardware specifications here: https://www.dell.com/downloads/ca/rpg/x200_spec.pdf. I decided to embark on this refurbishment project back in February 2017 when I spotted a great YouTube video about running modern software on Windows 98: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA58zWmQfC4. Hardware Upgrades My first step was to swap … Continue reading Dell Latitude X200 Refurbish
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