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[The Chair]

Hello everyone. I've lately been obsessed about the thought of playing good old games again, and using a laptop for it. Reason for that being that I don't have space for another computer and I could also be online and chat on the other computer at the same time easily. I haven't been able to find anywhere a topic about this yet or talk about it in general.

Is it a good idea? Is there somekind of special problem that normal PCs don't have? Only thing I can really think of is that if the LCD screen would be too slow for playing the games, or does that just apply for pre-pentium laptops? I don't have much at all experience with laptops myself, just with normal tower/desktop ones.

I've been looking for some used laptops online that would hopefully be suitable for this use, here are the canditates so far:

IBM Thinkpad 760L Intel Pentium 90MHz
16MB SIMM
510MB HD
Trident Cyber 9320 1Mb GPU
Soundcard and internal speakers (doesn't say what kind of soundcard)
(No CD-Drive)
Internal Floppy Drive
10.4" Active TFT Screen


Toshiba Tecra 510CDT 133MHz MMX
48MB Memory
2.10GB HD
(No mentioning about the GPU)
(No mentioning about soundcard)
Internal CD-Drive
External Floppy Drive
12.1" TFT SVGA Screen
(Missing the battery cover :p)


IBM Thinkpad 560Z 300MHz
64MB Memory
4GB HDD IBM Travelstar
(No mentioning about GPU)
(No mentioning about soundcard)
External CD-Drive
External Floppy Drive
USB Port
12.1" TFT SVGA Screen


Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook L460 P2 333MHz
64MB Memory
4.3GB HD
(No mentioning about GPU)
Stereo Sound (I take it there is definately a soundcard then :p)
20x CD-Drive (On the docking bay, or whatever the proper english term for it is)
Floppy Drive (On the docking bay as well)
13.3" TFT Screen
It also has loads of ports in the docking bay, audio out (which is a big plus for me), tv-out, 2x usb, 2x ps/2, 10/100Mbit network, PCMCIA slot, external screen slot, etc...


So far as I've been doing research, the two latter ones may be too fast, but are they really? There's at least hope they'd have hopefully fast enough screens and expecially the last one tickles my fancy, because of all the connectivity possibilities, but thats all rather minor in the end for this kind of use really, would be nice to hook it to my amplifier though. I've been thinking of installing DOS 6.22 on it, or alternatively FreeDos, and maybe one of the Windows. Depending a lot which one I would get.

Give me your honest opinions, thanks. :)