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Retired Military Laptop Turned Windows XP Gaming Powerhouse
2025-12-24 01:10 CET
Perhaps the best thousand dollars I've ever spent on retro gaming arrived in my mail last week.
If you're not familiar with the Dell Latitude E6420 XFR, I wouldn't blame you. It wasn't made with consumers in mind. Released in 2013, these laptops were designed for military use and many very likely saw action in the Iraq and Afghan Wars, along with other military operations conducted by US armed forces around the world.
These laptops are extremely tanky by design. They were completely redesigned from the consumer model with one notable (and welcome) change being the XFR model removed all forms of consumer grade plastics and rubber (which by 2025, is usually universally melted, very sticky, and hard to polish away).
Another change comes in the form of every port being sealed and lockable with a thick hatch. These laptops are essentially water proof, humidity proof, and fire resistant. If you look up some pictures, you'll see I'm being dead serious. Something I failed to mention...
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If you're not familiar with the Dell Latitude E6420 XFR, I wouldn't blame you. It wasn't made with consumers in mind. Released in 2013, these laptops were designed for military use and many very likely saw action in the Iraq and Afghan Wars, along with other military operations conducted by US armed forces around the world.
These laptops are extremely tanky by design. They were completely redesigned from the consumer model with one notable (and welcome) change being the XFR model removed all forms of consumer grade plastics and rubber (which by 2025, is usually universally melted, very sticky, and hard to polish away).
Another change comes in the form of every port being sealed and lockable with a thick hatch. These laptops are essentially water proof, humidity proof, and fire resistant. If you look up some pictures, you'll see I'm being dead serious. Something I failed to mention...
TeamSpeak is Back for XP Gamers!
2025-05-07 07:07 CEST
Welcome to my first blog post! I'd like to quickly give a shout-out to my buddy Shaknunic and commend him and his efforts for bringing to light the fact that you can still use TeamSpeak 3 on Windows XP.
Here's the very last version that XP ever supported.
More importantly than that, if you're an XP gamer, you'll want to hang out in the dedicated retro TeamSpeak server that Shak hosts.
Here's all the info you need to join!
All you have to do is type in a username and join in. I completely forgot about the fact that there was no registration requirements for the original TeamSpeak program. That is a HUGE blessing in 2025, because it means there's no forced updating. It means that TeamSpeak will forever work on Windows XP, so long as everyone is using the same version when they connect to a server.
Ther...
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Here's the very last version that XP ever supported.
More importantly than that, if you're an XP gamer, you'll want to hang out in the dedicated retro TeamSpeak server that Shak hosts.
Here's all the info you need to join!
All you have to do is type in a username and join in. I completely forgot about the fact that there was no registration requirements for the original TeamSpeak program. That is a HUGE blessing in 2025, because it means there's no forced updating. It means that TeamSpeak will forever work on Windows XP, so long as everyone is using the same version when they connect to a server.
Ther...