The Pocket 386 is a 7-inch laptop that is presented as a nod to all of us who grew up in the era of MS-DOS and Windows 95 operating systems. It is designed to offer a completely retro experience, both in its design and in its features , because it is configured sa 386 SX processor running at 40 MHz.

To give our younger readers more context, the 40 MHz 386 SX processor was the fastest model in its class, as this CPU could run between 16 MHz and 40 MHz and It was a 32-bit chip. which retained near-perfect backward compatibility with 16-bit code, allowing it to run older applications.

This processor is integrated into the Ali M6117 module and is accompanied 8MB RAM, which means it exceeds the minimum requirements to run Windows 95. This operating system requires a processor 386 and 4 MB RAM, so the performance should be acceptable if we don’t use the device intensively.

Rounding out the rest of the Pocket 386’s specs is a swappable VGA graphics card, IDE mode storage with a CF card, a USB controller, a Yamaha YMF262-M sound card, and a mouse integrated into the arrow keys. The display has a diagonal of 7 inches, an IPS LC panel is placed on it and it can work in two modes, 16:9 or 4:3 with resolution 800 x 480 or 640 x 480 pixels.

Both the format and design of the Pocket 386 They perfectly restore the retro touch that had laptops a few years ago. This model mainly reminds me of Toshiba’s Libretto 20, which came out in 1996, equipped with a 75 MHz 486 DX4 processor and also had 8 MB of RAM.

The Pocket 386 has the size Dimensions 210 x 120 x 30 mm, which means it is very compact. Use a 4000 mAh battery and has USB Type-A connectors, a 3.5 mm jack, a parallel port, 8-bit and 16-bit ISA connectors and a set of GPIO pins. A version with a TTL-RS-232 serial adapter is also available.

The price of this laptop is 223.68 euros and comes with Windows 3.11 pre-installed, a 16-bit operating system that has much more modest requirements than Windows 95, but which will work seamlessly with the Pocket 386 and give us access to a wider ecosystem of applications and programs. If you’re thinking of using it for gaming, keep in mind that only very old games will work and that’s it even DOOM will move pretty slowly.