The bulk of my childhood PC gaming was done on various rebuilt 486s until I finally got ahold of a Pentium 90, so seeing phrases like "restart in MS-DOS mode" has been pretty nostalgic. Also, running Windows 98SE will allow me to have a (relatively) stable OS that will support games that required Windows/DirectX back in the mid to late 90s. Yes, DOSBox exists, but it's not perfect, and there are plenty of games that have issues running on new hardware (either out and out incompatibility, or timing issues on modern CPUs). The reason I'm excited to own a piece of hardware less powerful than your grandmother's cell phone is this: I can now play DOS games on hardware actually suited to them. It has a 12.1" Screen, weighs almost 7 pounds, and the battery is deader than the parents on Party of Five.
This beauty is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT, which sports a Pentium 166MHz CPU with MMX, 32MB of EDO RAM, a 2MB Chips and Technologies SVGA video card, a 10X CD-ROM drive, a blazing fast 33.6k modem, and a mammoth 2GB hard disk. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you my new laptop:
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