Daniel Simionescu, aka “sdz” on the Vogons forums, has created what he calls the “Voodoo 4 M4800.” The project involved transplanting the processor from a Voodoo4 4500.
In context: Having a graphics card powerful enough to play 3D games on a laptop in the early 2000s was pretty much unheard of as the technology just hadn’t matured enough yet. However, one retro enthusiast is demonstrating just how far things have come by shoehorning a Voodoo4 graphics processor into a laptop.
Daniel Simionescu, aka “sdz” on the Vogons forums, has created what he calls the “Voodoo 4 M4800.” The project involved transplanting the processor from a Voodoo4 4500 AGP card onto a custom MXM board, which he then plugged into the expansion slot of a 2013 Dell Precision M4800 laptop.
