Off topic a bit, but I used to play full screen standard 700mb DVDrips on a 266mhz P2 mobile processor with just 192mb RAM. It did have the Mobility Rage Pro ATI mobile chipset however but this is far inferior to any desktop machine's GPU card in 100s of Mhz CPU speed.
That was with Windows 98.
I went from my former 400 MHz K6 processor to a nice faster 1GHz Athlon when I saw how it played DVD rips, and you're arguing that a 266 MHz mobile P2 would have been enough? Please don't go on kidding: in order to play movies encoded at decent bitrates without loosing frames, you need power.
On the other hand, my old G3/400 iBook performed enough well with DivX videos, but it skipped frames too. I should remove a little dust from it and try it again...
