Tinkering With A Old Laptop With A Bit Of An Identity Crisis. Surely This Ain’t No Macbook – Part 01

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What to do with an older Dell Lattitude E5250 laptop? It’s nice and black and actually resembles one of the black Mac Books I know. Wait… I have one of those Apple stickers – I wonder how the big white one would look slapped on the lid of the laptop? Bazinga… it does make it look like a Macbook.

This used to be the laptop I normally use(d) next to my aging Macbook but as we got newer a replacement through Elise’s job this laptop became a bit of a spare. But I immediately thought: EXPERIMENTATION GALORE!

I got rid of Windows and thought about what to do with the machine other than putting a sticker on? I could try to Hackintosh it… or…. or…. Wait let’s put Linux on it and emulate the freeking bejeebers out of the thing. Let’s make it emulate so many things that it actually forgets what it actually is…
and try some EMULATION INCEPTION… and see how that turns out.

Lattitude E5250:
Screen 12,5″ 1366×768 (WXGA Wide)
RAM 16Gb, DDR3
CPU Intel Core i5-5300U (2 cores, 4 threads)
HD/SSD 250 Gb

Software:
OS Linux Mint
FS-UAE (Linux) – Amiga
BasiliskII (Linux) – 68k MacOS 8.1
Sheepshaver (Linux) – PPC MacOS 9.2
Wine – 32 and 64 bit Windows
BaliliskII (Windows) – 68k MacOS 8.1
Sheepshaver (Windows) – PPC MacOS 9.2
QEMU-PPS (Linux) – PPC MacOS 9.22
DOSBox
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what might come in another video is
PCEm – Windows 98 / MS-DOS 6.22 Windows 3.11 ?
PSX – Scene demos, games ?
PS2 – Scene demos, games ?
PSP – Scene demos, games ?
FS-UAE – Scene demos, games ?

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