At first when I read this I thought "wow, really?", then I thought about it and realized that I never had one either... until I got this laptop. :) My history of resolutions are:

1024x768 -> 1152x864 -> 1600x1200 -> 2048x1536 -> 1920x1200x2 -> 1920x1200x2+2560x1600 -> 2560x1600x3+1920x1200x2

Then an inherited laptop at 1366x768, and my gaming laptop at 1920x1080.

Totally not a fan of 1080p though. :)

boss...still rocking a ps3....is it the original fat...or slim...or...superslim?

I reckon getting a stock Linux-compatible IR receiver would be both cheaper and easier)
Anyway if I'm to move on, then it better be to a dedicated media server setup, cos that's what I use the remote for - to control the player while watching movies via HDMI. And for *that* the stuff you mention would be a must.

Original Fat (Though i don't remember if it had PS1/PS2 compatibility or not).

Lately I've been using it to play DVD/Bluerays more than anything else.

Heh. That's why I mentioned RPi. I used to use XBMC (nowadays Kodi). I made a media server with just network and power cable in, but nothing else and installed XBMC on RPi that connects to the media server and used some random remote control. Films and series on the server, RPi as a client in my bedroom. I used some old remote control I had laying around, an RPi I already had so all I needed was the IR-module (less than €1 in an electronics component shop), some wire and a soldering iron.

Very interesting. The Graphic card addition was a good upgrade, now it's even capable of hardware decode some videos...

Back in the day I had 2 Asus eeepc with those Atom processors (Atom N450 single core and N2600 dual core, both Hyper threading) and they were great on battery life. However, those were freaking slow, and I mean clearly the worst CPU made on the last 20 years slow!!!!
If correctly remember, those were Pentium 2 or 3 remanufactured on a smaller node, lacking modern-ish intruction set and out of order execution. AMD offerings were miles away from those and AMD 1GHz CPU's were at least twice as fast. As soon as Javascript invaded the internet those became useless. The N2600 dual core was actually usable if was not for the VIA/PowerVR Graphics unit wich the drivers were probably the worst I've seen (clearly not finished).

As you noted I have a history with that line of Atom CPU's and due the slowness, I start looked at Linux. No graphic drivers for the N2600 except some odd kernel that I didn't know how to change at the time but the N450 running Ubuntu was so much better, faster, more responsive and could watch youtube at 720p instead of 240/360p.
Both shipped with only 1GB or RAM (both upgraded) and Windows 7 starter that cannot even change the wallpaper!!!!!!

Looking bak, it was actually a nice experience and since I had a decent laptop, those were only used for writing, reading and experiences. I learned a bit of Linux and how to optimize things for limited hardware, even overclocked via base clock. I still use low power stuff almost every day (surface 3 with x7 Atom CPU and previously chinese tablet with x5 Atom) maybe because of those underpowered, awfull, unresponsive CPU's.

Wish you the best with that machine and I wonder if you still used it and what games can you actually play.

I see you like 16:10 :-)
I liked it on my previous monitor too, but now I'm fine with 16:9 on this one - 1440P (27") is enough vertical space for me.

I do have 1080P on an old TV, and on my (music studio) laptop. That last one could use a bit more vertical resolution - one day I'll replace it with a wall-mounted 4K TV.

btw. that x3 + x2, is that on one PC or two?

The Arduino Uno is not capable of acting like a standard keyboard. You would need a microcontroller that supports native USB, like one with the RP2040 (like the Raspberry Pi Pico) or the ESP32-S2, or certain SAMD microcontrollers.

Some models of the Raspberry Pi can act as USB gadgets, like the model A's (but you need a USB A-to-A cable, which is a violation of the USB spec), the Zeros, and even the 4B and 400 (via USB-C). You will need the right software installed, and with the 4B/400, you will need the computer to provide enough power to run the Pi.

(Note that the Raspberry Pi Pico isn't like the other Pis; it's a microcontroller board like the Arduino, and is hence an entirely different class of device. Don't expect to run something like LIRC, though you can have it act like a keyboard, and can use the GPIO to connect the IR receiver.)

There's probably some custom bootloader that enables this, the same way Digispark (and clones) works with a ATTINY85 wich don't natively support USB.

Dark_art_ thanks for your post.

I still use that PC as a backup, have a printer connected to it for scanning and such, Youtube and other basic desktop stuff and you'd be surprised how many games run pretty well on it, here are some of them:

LEGO games:
LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
LEGO Batman 1-3
LEGO Indiana Jones 1
LEGO LOTR
LEGO Marvel Superheroes
LEGO The Hobbit

*Used to play them with my nephew when he was younger, the newer ones were played on medium-low settings.

2.5D Games:
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
Super Street Fighter IV
Trine 1 & 2 (medium settings)

2D Platformers:
Axiom Verge
Bleed 1, 2
Block that Matter
BloodRayne: Betrayal
Escape Goat
Ghost 1.0
Guacamelee: STCE
Metroid 2 (AM2R)
Owlboy
Rayman Legends
Rayman Origins
Spelunky
Unepic

RPGs:
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 EE
Balrum
Diablo 1 (GOG)
Diablo 2 (using Sven's Wrapper)
Dragon Age: Origins
Icewind Dale EE
Lords of Xulima
Planescape: Torment EE
Gothic 1 & 2
Risen
Stardew Valley
Torchlight
Titan Quest AE
Wizard of Legend (more of a combat arena)

Strategy:
Halfway
HoMM2 (Win ver with Verok's Wrapper)
HoMM3 HD
Majesty Gold HD
Worms Armageddon

FPS:
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition (EDuke32)
Heretic & Hexen (GZDoom)
Quake 1 (DirectQ)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Shadow Warrior: Classic Complete (VoidSW)
Star Wars - Battlefront II (2005)
Star Wars - Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
XIII

Adventure:
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Primordia
Quest for Glory 1-5
ScummVM (including many free AGS games like KQ3 Redux, Quest for Glory 2 VGA, etc.)

Space Combat:
Wing Commander 4
Wing Commander 5: Prophecy + Secret Ops + Standoff (with a patch that runs the 3DFX mode using a GL Wrapper)

*With that PC I usually disable anti-alias, bloom, motion or speed blur, depth of field for pretty much most games,
and I usually set V-Sync off or put it on Adaptive.

* I also have a bunch of casual Match 3 and Tower Defense games on it.

Good to know. I just assumed it works like Digispark and mentioned Arduino first since it's more known.

one of those youtube specialists had for quite some time a neat little program on offer that made it possible to use different pc's with one mouse and keyboard even making it possible to swap files if i remember correct. If you're interested, i could look up a stream of his because, for of the love of gees i'm not able to remember its name anymore

It's best to consider AM2R as being a different game, as it changes a lot from the original Metroid 2 on which it's based.

(Also, note that Metroid: Samus Returns on the Nintendo 3DS (IIRC) is quite different from both Metroid 2 and AM2R, and should, again, be regarded as a different game.)

I guess being far more powerful than what I believed for the longest time (it's a laptop that's about 6 years old already and it was average back in 2015). It can run some games that require way above its specs, and I can even use it to run virtual machines with recent operating systems while using another recent operating system as host machine.