As soon as I saw the RM logo on the Vinted listing I had to buy it, for maximum nostalgia overload reasons

This laptop was not made by RM, it is nothing more than a rebadged Clevo CL51 from 2004 and came with various specifications depending on what was specified when ordered
This example has a Intel Pentium M processor running at 1.7GHz with 512MB of RAM running Windows XP

Apart from being chonky to cope with the trials of school children the styling is similar to other machines of the era

Dat logo tho

USB 2.0, PCMCIA, SD card slot, audio sockets, and aeroplane mode switch. Then power, battery, and hard disc tray access

Parallel port, VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, modem and ethernet, PS2 keyboard and mouse, and firewire. And an optical drive on the front

Base of the laptop with model labels

Generic 19v Liteon PSU

Nice boot screen, then normal Windows XP with DXDiag showing system information

As it's only a 32 bit processor Linux Mint would not start
9 - STOP statement, 910:1
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