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I had a broken laptop, it was serviceable but the broken hinges, when replaced w/ NOS parts broke just in the same way.

And that was OK, until it wasn't and I let some knucklehead abscond... Wait- that's not this thread, THIS thread is about the replacement laptop that's filling the gap until I get a 'real' replacement.

Its running a Pentium M processor, which is certainly only 32bit but lets just get real and call a spade a spade: It's a 386.

There are a lot of people on the planet who weren't even born yet during the heyday of the 386.

I just recently came across some surplus RAM and upgraded from 512M, yes- units in MEG,

to a maxed out 1Gig.

Let the rejoicing begin...

Actually, the Pentium was Intel's next architecture after the 486.

It might have been the "586", except that they wanted to differentiate it from AMD's 486 follow-on.

{I was working at American Megatrends during that period - which was founded by the same team of five Indian engineers who had, earlier, while living in a two-bedroom apartment on Buford Highway, designed the first working 386 motherboard on the dining-room table; one of them [Sukha Ghosh] worked out the basis for instruction caching...}