I have a 833MHz Celeron laptop and a 550Mhz Athlon desktop, both of which I run Blitz3D and BlitzMax on...
Good for you. You don't need a 3D accelerator to run BlitzMax. Blitz3D is a little different.
@FlameDuck:
There is no way your proposed design could dissipate the heat generated by your proposed components. It might not actually melt, but it would be much, much too hot to touch, and you would have to clean the fans regularly (like each day).
I have my doubt about if high density resin would actually even get hot enough to the touch. The fans would need cleaning if they didn't have a filter behind them (intake fans). The designs I have made for these portable systems are all tought out since 2004, and parts get better every now and then. 2.5 inch HDDs are dissipating less and less heat as they evolve. Power supply get stricter regulations, such as 80 Plus, which dissipate less heat and give more wattage output. CPUs such as the new INTEL core 2 Duo and Quad dissipate little heat compared to the old Pentium 4s. The only ennemy towards a dense system remain the graphics cards, which consume and dissipate still a lot of heat. But a midrange graphics card is quite reasonable, if not overclocked.