Ideal legacy laptop

[wylven]

Greetings. I've been out of the EQ/EQemu scene for a while. I'm interested in getting involved again, but I've long since left the PC world. I work on a Mac, with OSX & Ubuntu in my professional life, and I really don't want to use the same machines to play EQ; I try and keep work things for work.

That said, I'm very interested in purchasing a machine that I can dedicate to EQ/P99. In concert with whatever obsessive thing it is that keeps me from setting up EQ on my work computer, I'd like to get a second-hand legacy laptop that's capable of running XP and EQ adequately—perhaps even with the performance users expected back in 1999-2002.

I know Vaios have always looked decent and felt sturdy. I used to have a decent Dell Inspiron back then, but that was custom. Can someone in the community recommend a legacy laptop that was both physically dependable and capable of running EQ?

I'm aware of the video card pitfall for machines from that era. I'm also aware of the various Centium processors that handled games like EQ poorly. For these problems I'm willing to look at a newer machine, perhaps as late as 2005-2006.

It's a tough, picky question, I know. My thought is that someone might have had the ideal laptop for EQ, from that era. And that eBay will have a decent one to scrounge up.