This week, I had someone leave a few older machines at my Store for me to securely erase and reuse/dispose of, and amongst them was Dell Latitude D600 from 2004. I removed and wiped the noisy 80GB IDE hard drive and replaced it with a 128GB mSATA SSD in an adapter, then installed Windows XP Professional, and managed to track down the missing drivers on the Dell website - good on them for still having them available!

It is in pretty good condition, but to let my Mac snobbery show, the hardware design is so boring and uninspired. It is as sexy (and as plastic!) as a lunchbox.

Anyway, this machine does have a ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics chip, so I will have to give it a spin with some contemporaneous games…

Currently listening: Mr Oizo - “Flat Beat”