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Toshiba Portege R100 - Installing Windows The Portege R100 was a high-end Ultrabook produced by Toshiba. Released in 2004, it was a thin, lightweight notebook, part of a series of machines carrying the Portege model name. The specs were an Intel Centrino Pentium M 1Ghz processor, Trident XP4 Graphics at 32Mb, Intel 855PM Chipset, up to 1.25Gb of DDR memory, 1024 x 768 XGA 12.1" Screen, and Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) coming in at less than 4lbs (1.81Kg) On release the price was over £2000, but this quickly dropped to £1500 to increase sales within business and office circles.  These notebooks have been quite sought after in the past few years, but are getting thin on the ground due to a few issues. One of those issues has been that they were thin and light-weight, meaning that they broke easily in the fat sweaty hands of over-weight business men, and parts were expensive, so lots of machines were broken down for parts.  The main problem in later years was that

Retro PC Gaming   I can remember walking into a Game Shop as a kid and walking around, looking at the games on offer for the various computers of the day. There had been computers around for decades, but they were starting to be available to have in the home. The Spectrum, the Dragon, the Commodore 64, the Vic 20 and the BBC Micro. Not to forget the mighty Amiga and Atari ST. There were games galore, some on cassette, some on disk, and most were rather expensive, especially the big name companies.  Sometime later, the Personal Computer (PC) came into the price range of the mainstream user, IBM did a deal with Microsoft and Windows became the standard Operating System for the PC. Games started to get better as the equipment got better, processors got faster, memory got better and faster, graphics cards designed with gaming in mind were appearing in shops, with their own dedicated memory on board. I remember the first PC I bough