A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (sometime in the late 1990s to the best of my recollection).

eMachines was known for their bargain basement desktop prices. While they made for very affordable PCs there's also that old maxim that you get what you pay for. The specs you got when you bought an eMachines

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (sometime in the late 1990s to the best of my recollection).

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (sometime in the late 1990s to the best of my recollection).

The XPS Gen2 is a fairly high end gaming laptop from Dell that was introduced in February 2005. High end in this case means a 2 GHz Pentium M CPU, 2 GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra. The nicest

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

The XPS Gen2 is a fairly high end gaming laptop from Dell that was introduced in February of 2005. What was high end? In this case, it was a 2 GHz Pentium M, 2 GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce Go 6800 Ultra.

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

The Dell Vostro 3550 is one of the newer laptops I've looked at. A Sandy Bridge era processor and 6 GB of RAM make it quite usable today even if it is getting kind of old. It's basic stats include: CPU:

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

The Vostro line from Dell was a low cost business line of desktops and laptops. Many times they were slight variations of Inspiron models internally with a different external design. Generally Vostros,

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

The Dell Inspiron 600M was probably one of the more popular laptops when it was released in the Summer of 2004. It was a reasonably speedy and compact Pentium M based system with decent graphics. Depending

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

I've always thought Dell has maintained better consistency in the quality of their laptops than most. There are, of course, exceptions. These days there aren't even that many brands to choose from. Not

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

The Dell Inspiron 1501 was released in 2006 as a budget friendly laptop. Part of what determines whether or not a laptop is low end or high end isn't just the specific components that are used but the

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago (we are talking late 1990s probably). I finally got around

Gateway, or Gateway 2000 as it was originally known, was my favorite producer of computers in the 1990s and early 2000s. I never bought a new laptop from them but I did get a couple of desktops over the