I could hook you up but the postage would probably ruin any deal potential. Good luck.
Would a Windows 98 laptop work?
There is no "flat rate" from the land of Igloos.Flat rate box?
Flat rate box?
Can I upgrade it to XP?
Looking for an older XP laptop with a ethernet port, all I want to do is a zoom zoom zoom with a naomi net boot...looking for cheap...
Are you kidding. Pentium 4's can run windows 7 fine, hell windows 10 if you wanted. Its all about having the right ram, ssds and video cards. Your cpu doesnt really do nearly as much as you think.Postage alone would be $25 USD, regardless of any laptop I were to offer. I have a couple Dell Latitude D600 systems, they are good for Windows ME and XP. I wouldn't be able to do "$50 shipped" just saying.
If it has a Windows 98 sticker on the case, I do not recommend putting Windows XP on it. XP is super slow on Pentium III and 4 laptops.
Sure, whatever. I had a Pentium D (dual core P4) on an nVidia nForce board with 2GB RAM and a nVidia GTS 250 card running XP SP3, it was painfully slow. Upgraded to a Core 2 Duo, massive improvement.
Most contemporary P4 systems are restricted to whatever is supported by the Socket 478 board, which isn't much. An LGA775 board helps, but not much.
Also, like I said, there's a big difference between running the Windows desktop and actually doing something useful.
So is there a reason it has to be a laptop?
I have a old HP netbook, atom N270, 2gb ram, XP home. Not sure if that's powerful enough to run what you want, but I don't have any immediate plans for it.
edit: has a 16gb ssd