Is it pretty crazy that Windows 98SE laptops are now 400$ and up if you want it to actually turn ON and not be broken? Is Covid the blame for this shit spiraling out of control for anything vintage now?

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[–]chadwickofwv 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The most likely reason is how horrible windows 10 and 11 are, especially when it comes to privacy. Many people are now realizing that the Windows os is little more than spyware. Spying on you was the purpose of the os after all.

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That's thep oint I was trying to make but nobody read my replies. On Windows 10 the best way to go about this is PCEM which actually emulates the bios of era chips up to 1996 I think which is Socket 8 if your host computer is powerful enough.I think higher end I-5 CPUS can comfortable do a lower end Pentium II (with Voodoo 3 graphics) if you dumb PCEM down to the lowest setting and it will keep 100% for most tasks if you don't emulate anything higher then Win98 Second Edition. For sure you can emulate among the highest Socket 7 bios.