The notebook is designed very slim, which leads to missing out of an internal optical drive.

Unlike the bigger Latitude notebooks, this design does not let the clearly smaller D420 appear to be that heavy and bulky.

The purpose of this simple and durable design is to avoid too much diversity in companies in order to deliver new notebooks without stirring up enviousness. However, the word color is not really appropriate, you should rather call it gray levels. If you need any more info, feel free to ask.The D420 with the recognizable decent form and color design is representative for the Dell Inspiron business line. The laptop currently has, I believe, a Core 2 Duo T2300, more than enough RAM (I had to edit system.ini to limit the maximum RAM), and 80GB HDD 7200RPM. Not only have 2 ISOs not worked on VirtualBox, but I specifically want to put this on Bare Metal. So far, I've used Retro Systems Revival to install some 3rd party ICH7 chipset, DirectX 9.0c, and Intel 945M Graphics.Īnd before you say it, no I don't want to use a VM. I've tried playing sounds through Sounds in the Control Panel, but it does not let me play it. So far, I'm only able to run in 16 colors (bleh) and no sound comes, except for a startling beep when I press the 'wrong' key in DOS or some other noise when I press something in device manager (can't remember how to replicate it right now). My plans for the laptop include enjoying the nostalgia of the quirky screensavers and themes, reminiscing about my first laptop (an NEC running Win 98), and playing old CDs like Freddi Fish, Spy Fox, and Pajama Sam. I don't need to install all of them, since I don't plan to go online with it and I don't anticipate using a USB (I have plenty of left over CDs to transfer data). I installed Win 98SE on it, but it's missing a bunch of drivers.

I have an old Dell Latitude D520 that originally ran Win XP.

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