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Dell Latitude X1
Specs
- Intel Pentium-M: 1.1GHz
- Intel 915GMS chipset
- Intel GMA 900 video
- Intel ICH6 / HDA / AC97 audio with Sigmatel codec
- 12“ TFT LCD @ 1280×768
- RAM DDR2-400 SO-DIMM
- 256MB (onboard), expansion up to 1280MB (256 onboard + 1024MB module)
- 1.8” PATA HDD
- USB (x2), Firewire, Gigabit ethernet
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Overview
Good Points
- Very small - barely bigger than the tiny Thinkpad 240 series
- Decent quality keyboard - not a chiclet type
- Plenty of CPU power for even the most demanding DOS games ever
- Supports USB floppy drives natively - both to boot and access within DOS
- Built in ethernet and wifi
- Completely fanless
- Emulated Soundblaster digital audio, Yamaha FM and soft MIDI synth supported by VSBHDA
- Emulated Soundblaster digital audio, Yamaha FM supported by SBEMU
Bad Points
- No built-in removeable storage
- BIOS is almost completely locked down, virtually nothing to configure
- No native Soundblaster capability
- Wifi card supports up to 'G' only - though can be replaced
- Widescreen - not ideal for 4:3 / 5:4 DOS games
- The Intel GMA video is not the fastest - some earlier AGP designs are faster; though it's still more than enough speed for even hi-res DOS games
- The internal HDD is an odd 1.8“ drive - cannot be easily swapped with a newer 2.5” drive; requires a 1.8“ to (something) converter board
- Mono internal speaker
Drivers & Utilities
- Broadcom gigabit NIC - No native DOS packet driver is available, but the
B57.COM
ODI shim does work and MTCP can use it. See https://packetdriversdos.net/ - Trackpad - No USB driver available, but Cutemouse can detect it. All versions (v19, 20, 21) seem to work. See https://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/
- Memory - Use UMBPCI with the
/I=D000-DFFF
to access the unused adapter ROM region and get more UMB space. See https://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html - Audio - Use VSBHDA to get excellent quality emulated Soundblaster and FM support, as well as software synth MIDI. See https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA
Benchmarks
Test | Base Config |
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3DBench 1.0c | 140.1 |
Chris 3D Bench | 142.5 fps |
Chris 3D Bench SVGA | VESA error |
PC Player VGA | 143.3 fps |
PC Player SVGA | 63.7 fps |
Doom (low detail) | 238 realtics |
Doom (high detail) | 1304 realtics |
Quake (320×200) | 116 fps |
Quake (360×480) | 47.0 fps |
Quake (640×480) | 41.0 fps |
Norton SI | 1063 |
Landmark CPU | 12950 MHz |
Landmark FPU | 24000 MHz |
Landmark Video | 7336 chr/sec |
Game Testing
Drive | Directory | Game | Variant or version | Sound config | Blaster | Runs | vsbhda | vsbhda16 | FM | Digital | MIDI | Retest Reason | Notes |
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