I spent a few minutes today setting up this Dell Latitude D600 laptop. It's a neat and zippy little Windows XP PC. Let's talk about it in a š§µ here! 
Here are the specs! Pentium M 1.60 GHz, and 2GB of memory. Pretty nice specs. And the battery is charging up nicely too. Score!
Unfortunately, the HDD is dead on this. So I put in a CF card adapter, using the old HDD to help align its placement. 4GB is going to be anemic for Windows XP, but it will get us by for now.
After installing Windows XP Professional, we have a fair number of yellow question marks in Device Manager. Let's get to work!
I went to Dell's website to grab some driver install files. It took me a minute to figure out the wireless card, but it is a Dell Wireless 1350 card. I burned the drivers to a CD for ease of installation.
The first thing I did was upgrade the BIOS, and it went off without a hitch!
From there, the driverfest install started. It sure is easy to install drivers in "later retro OSes" like Windows XP. Much easier than DOS, Win3.1x, or Win9x for that matter! It just works!! Granted, it also helps that this is a branded system.
I am a fan of the utilities for the Dell QuickSet and the Alps GlidePoint touchpad. Always nice to have control of your hardware... and software!
After running a few more installers, we were all wrapped up! Here we have video, chipset, and modem.
All set, no more yellow question marks! Here's my final list of installed programs. And here is the "General" system info page. Very nice! As always, thanks for following along! This is more modern than I usually do, but I really love this system!
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