These challenges always crack me up. Unless you are doing a couple specific things that really stress hardware (higherend graphics work, audio work, video work,

These challenges always crack me up. Unless you are doing a couple specific things that really stress hardware (higherend graphics work, audio work, video work, that sort of thing) you should be able to do 99% of everything on the listed restrictions with /ease/. The fact a lot of common things will run like crap on that says a lot about the state of things these days. Granted, this is an artificial restriction and most software that wont like it was never intended to run on it blahblah... I still happily can use my Portege 3110ct for daily use and it's a pentium 2 300 w/ 192mb ram, 60GB IDE SSD, 800x600 display. The main issues I have with it are the resolution of the screen and having more RAM /would/ be nice. The allowance for remote access kinda entirely negates the point of this, too, imo. RDP/VNC/etc to something more powerful is cheating lol. With that allowance you just need a decent screen, input, and a fast enough framebuffer and network for it to not be painting pixels the entire time. Which means you could, conceivably, do everything on damn near anything from the 90s up. And quite a few 80s workstations would give you enough oomph for remote access if you tried hard enough.