I'd probably just get one of those power inverters to use normal plugs in the car, they're pretty cheap. Still keeping an eye out on the laptop market. Lost a bid on a larger Dell 500mhz beast. Trying to stay under $300. I am more heavily eyeing up the ones with a video output.
I'd be perfectly OK with running win98SE on it - although loading XP on it would be preferable (after stripping XP of useless services, eyecandy, etc). I'd probably try both. I did some reading and found comments that the older versions of PowerDVD run pretty decently on a PII-266. Glad to hear...
Hey, Any comments from anyone that uses an old laptop as a portable dvd player? My and my fiancee are driving on a cross country trip in June and have been looking at portable dvd players for in the car/tent/hotel/etc. She'd also be using it at work. We weren't happy with the image quality on...