My wife drew a cute sticker for my retro laptop with a desktop Pentium 4 3.2 HT (specs inside)

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Comprehensive-Ad6017@reddit (OP)

Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D1840 from the DTR-segment - such laptops are designed to replace a desktop as much as possible, so it weighs 3.5 kg (4.6 with charging!)

Inside - desktop Pentium 4 (Nortwood) at 3.2 GHz with TDP 82W, just hot as hell.

Graphics - Mobility Radeon 9600 128 Mb

RAM - 1GB ddr1 (max 2GB)

15” widescreen display with 1280*800 resolution

Huge 160W charger with the function of heating two mugs of tea:)

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GammaBoost@reddit

1280*800 screen but the resolution isn't actually set to that, making everything look stretched. Please fix it 😅

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Comprehensive-Ad6017@reddit (OP)

Yes, the current resolution is set as 1024*768. I have a some problem with the drivers, I can't set 1280*800 now(

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Starkoman@reddit

Look on Vogons Vintage Driver Library.

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Comprehensive-Ad6017@reddit (OP)

Thanks!

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Comprehensive-Ad6017@reddit (OP)

Yep:)

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Starkoman@reddit

Q: Is this one of the Amilo machines that had 2 x Hard Drives in them?

A friend sent one to me for wiping and installing Windows XP Black Edition on (many years ago) — and I noticed it had two hard drives which you could, if desired, set up as RAID-0 or RAID-1.

I was impressed by how unusual/unique that was in a laptop.

The downside, of course, was that it was bulky and heavy.

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TxM_2404@reddit

Nice. Real 3.2GHz in a laptop. Still more than many modern laptop CPUs have.

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Not all MHz are created the same. The Pentium 4 (NetBurst) architecture relatively low IPC (Instructions Per Clock) despite the overall high clock speeds. This was most evident in very branch-y code (the real world code everyone actually writes) where branch mispredicts would stall pipelines for a dozen cycles. AMD K8 chips could match the performance of Pentium 4s at much lower clock speeds thanks to their higher IPC. When the Core series were released at 1.5-1.6GHz they were neck and neck with Pentium 4s at 3GHz.

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TxM_2404@reddit

Not all MHz are created the same.

Obviously. Still an impressive number, especially with how hot such a chip would run. I looked at the specs to confirm and it seems like this laptop chip has a higher TDP than my octa core desktop chip.

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EwanWhoseArmy@reddit

Sort of

It was intels brute force solution to the P4s performance per instruction speed and screw efficiency

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DiplomaticGoose@reddit

iirc during the Pentium 4 era it was significantly cheaper to license the desktop Pentium 4 from Intel then it was to get an actual Pentium 4m. For that reason, these midrange desktop replacements were very common and the actual low-tdp Intel laptops of the time were stupid expensive.

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